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Incorporating Mindfulness Meditation into the Treatment of Provoked Vestibulodynia 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Basson, R.,Smith, K. B.
  • 학회/출판사/기관명SPRINGER SCIENCE & BUSINESS MEDIA
  • 출판년도2014
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기CURRENT SEXUAL HEALTH REPORTS -PHILADELPHIA-
  • 발행사항Vol.6No.1[2014]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN1548-3584
  • 소개/요약Optimal therapy for the pain and sexual dysfunction associated with provoked vestibulodynia (PVD) is unclear. Commonly co-morbid with other chronic pain conditions, PVD affects up to 18 % of premenopausal women. There is usually subsequent persistent sexual dysfunction and sexual dissatisfaction. We suggest that due to the documented underlying emotional stressors and subsequent sexual stress from living with PVD, the current stress model of pain can usefully guide therapy. Recent scientific data confirm a benefit from mindfulness practice to reduce chronic pain and stress as well as to ameliorate women’s sexual dysfunction. There is a rationale and preliminary evidence of benefit from a brief, small-group therapy which emphasized mindfulness for the pain and suffering of PVD. Modelled on similar programs for anxiety, depression, and stress, an eight-week mindfulness-based cognitive therapy program for PVD has been established.