List of Articles Sexual functioning

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  1 - A Comparison between Males/Females and Divorcing ones on Sexual Functioning in Isfahan
  Iran Mahdizadegan elahe barekat mohsen golparvar
  The main purpose of this research was to compare males/females and divorcing ones on sexual functioning. The research method was causal-comparative study (ex post facto) and the population comprised divorcing couples who referred to well-being health centers and family More

  The main purpose of this research was to compare males/females and divorcing ones on sexual functioning. The research method was causal-comparative study (ex post facto) and the population comprised divorcing couples who referred to well-being health centers and family courts and normal couples in Isfahan. among them, 30 divorcing males, 30 normal males, 30 divorcing females and 30 normal females were slected through convenience sampling. The research instrument was Sexual Function Questionnaire (Rosen, et al, 2000). The data was analyzed by using Multivariate Analysis of Variance for both males and females separately (divorcing and normal). The results showed that there were significant differences in sexual desire, mental stimulation, orgasm, satisfaction and sexual pain, except in moist between divorcing males and normal males. Moreover, there were significant differences in mental stimulation, moist, orgasm, satisfaction and sexual pain, except in sexual desire between divorcing females and normal ones. Manuscript profile
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  2 - The effectiveness of emotionally-focused group therapy on improving emotional expressiveness and sexual functioning of women with type 2 diabetes
  Somayyeh Ahmadi Bajestani MohammadJavad Asghari EbrahimAbad Seyedali Kimiyayi MohammadJavad Asghari EbrahiAbad
  Diabetes is a common chronic disease. Not accepting the disease, be sensitive to fluctuations in blood glucose, to need insulin injections, restrictions on dietary and physical activity levels, to need accurate and continuous care of their self, and also the risk of ser More

  Diabetes is a common chronic disease. Not accepting the disease, be sensitive to fluctuations in blood glucose, to need insulin injections, restrictions on dietary and physical activity levels, to need accurate and continuous care of their self, and also the risk of serious complications, can lead to psychological problems in diabetics. Research shows that sexual dysfunction is very common in women with diabetes. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of emotion focused group therapy on improving emotional expressiveness and sexual functioning of women with type 2 diabetes. For this purpose, during the semi-experimental design with pretest, post-test and control group, 24 women with type 2 diabetes were selected from one of health centers in Mashhad through judgmental sampling and randomly placed in two experimental and control groups. The subjects were evaluated for emotional expressiveness and sexual functioning before and after the intervention. Eight sessions of Emotion-focused therapy were used for the experimental group. The results of analysis of Covariance show that Emotion-focused therapy was effective in increasing the emotional expressiveness and sexual functioning of women with type 2 diabetes. Emotion-focused therapy can improve emotional expressiveness and sexual functioning of women with type 2 diabetes through validation of emotion and its reframing Manuscript profile