The Reciprocal Relations Between Psychosocial Characteristics and the Progression of Vestibulodynia

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2021-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

The proposed study will evaluate how personality characteristics, cognitive factors and the emotional and behavioral responses of patients with provoked vestibulodynia (localized provoked vulvodynia) influence the natural history of the syndrome, patients' adherence to therapeutic interventions, provoked pain levels, pelvic floor rehabilitation, emotional health and sexual functioning.

• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Meir Medical Center

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. A history of 3 months or more of vulvar pain suggestive of PVD, i.e. symptoms of pain on vaginal penetration (insertional dyspareunia and/or pain with tampon insertion).

2. On exam, tenderness localized within the vestibule when being touched with a cotton-tip applicator.

3. No identifiable cause for the pain, such as vulvovaginal candidiasis, vaginal atrophy, desquamative inflammatory vaginitis (DIV), herpes, dermatitis or vulvar dystrophy.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. other causes for vulvar pain

2. pregnancy or a planned pregnancy in the upcoming year

3. diagnosis of chronic disease that may affect central nervous system or general function.

4. usage of psychiatric medications or those affecting pain modulation.

5. unprovoked or mixed vulvodynia