Impact of Educational Seminars on Women With Provoked Vestibulodynia

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 132-138

  Brotto, Lori A ^a   Sadownik, Leslie ^a   Thomson, Sydney ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mood; Patient education; Sexual dysfunction; Vestibulodynia

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENITAL PAIN; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; ORGASM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTCOME OF EDUCATION; PARANOIA; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROVOKED VESTIBULODYNIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSIS; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL HEALTH; SOMATIZATION; ADULT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; VULVODYNIA;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; VULVODYNIA;

EID: 77951891017     PISSN: 17012163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1701-2163(16)34427-9     Document Type: Article

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