About this trial
This study looks at the potential effects of a new group treatment called "Take Your Sexuality Back", designed for women who have experienced sexual trauma. Investigators will collect information in two ways-through forms that participants fill out themselves and through ECG measurements during a stress tests. Data will be collected before the treatment, right after it, and again three months later. When all data are collected and analyzed investigators will carry out in-depth interviews with participants and explore how they felt about being tested and how they understand the results -especially if some numbers look unusual or surprising. The goal with this study is to create a strong foundation for a future larger-scale study of the treatment by testing the methods, estimating the size of possible effects and identify outcome measurements that are experienced as meaningful to the participants.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
A history of sexual trauma.
Experience trauma-related sexual problems.
Age between 18 and 65 years.
Enough competence in Norwegian to participate in a psychoeducational group.
Disqualifiers
Acute suicidality.
Serious substance abuse interfering with treatment
Severe dissociative or psychotic disorders.
Current life crisis interfering with treatment.
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Take your sexuality back
Treatment groups
Sponsors and collaborators
Sykehuset Telemark
Lead sponsor
University of Agder
Collaborator
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Collaborator