ArticleJournal of education and health promotion2026
Mindfulness-based counseling for sexual relational concern in infertile women: A clinical trial protocol.
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backgroundInfertility affects the sexual and psychological behavior of women and causes anxiety. Physical infertility treatment without psychological intervention is not successful enough. Mindfulness cognitive behavioral therapy, as the simplest yet most effective type of meditation in the world, can probably improve the level of psychological-sexual components of infertile women, including sexual relational concern. This study will investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based counseling in reducing sexual relational concern among infertile women. MATERIALS AND
methodsThis randomized clinical trial will involve 80 infertile women selected through simple sampling from March 2024 to July 2025 in Babol, Iran. If participants meet the inclusion criteria, they will complete demographic and sexual relational concern questionnaire. Then will be randomly assigned to intervention or control groups using randomization with blocks of 4. After a face-to-face counseling session, the intervention group will receive seven sessions of mindfulness-based counseling by telephone at one-week intervals according to Kabat-Zinn's standard protocol. Participants in the control group will not receive any training. All participants will complete the sexual relational concern questionnaire immediately and one month after the study. Data will be analyzed with SPSS version 22 software using Chi-square, T-test, and repeated-measures ANOVA tests. A significance level of 5% will be used for the tests.
conclusionThis study will demonstrate the impact of mindfulness-based counseling on sexual relational concern in infertile women. The positive results of this counseling could be a beneficial solution to reduce the psychological complications of infertility in women, and so, increase the effectiveness and speed of infertility treatment. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: This trial protocol has been approved in the Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials (IRCT) at 2024-01-20. Registration reference is IRCT20180218038783N8.
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