The role of personal factors in quality of life among Iranian women with vaginismus: a path analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The aim of this study was to provide a path model for assessing the direct and/or indirect effects of psychological/behavioral parameters on health-related quality of life among women with vaginismus.

Methods

A cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 236 women with vaginismus disorder attending to sex clinics in Tehran, Iran from April 2017 to March 2018. Data were collected using a demographic questionnaire, the marital satisfaction scale, the hospital anxiety and depression scale, the rosenberg self-esteem scale, the body image concern inventory, the short-form health survey (SF-12) and the female sexual quality of life questionnaire. In addition to descriptive statistical data, the fitness of the proposed model was investigated using path analysis.

SUBMITTER: Velayati A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8204437 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature