CBT Group Treatment for Women With Dyspareunia

The current study will employ a group CBT treatment program of 10 group sessions and 3 individual couple sessions targeting the thoughts, emotions, behaviors and couple interactions associated with the experience of dyspareunia. Women with superficial dyspareunia and their partners will be randomized to the CBT group program-plus or a waiting list control period at one treatment location in Sweden and two treatment locations in the Netherlands. The waiting-list control period will be comparable to the treatment duration of six months. It is hypothesized that the group program-plus is more effective in improving pain during intercourse in women with superficial dyspareunia compared to women on a waiting-list control period.