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Health professionals' perspectives to support people with vaginismus: Qualitative interview data

Western Sydney University
Pithavadian, Rashmi
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Between 2023–2024, semi-structured interviews were conducted via Zoom videoconferencing software with 23 health professionals across Australia. These health professionals worked in general practice, pelvic floor physiotherapy, uro/gynecology, mental health, nursing and clinical education. Health professionals discussed how they supported and assessed women with vaginismus, and considered diverse patients' experiences. Such diversity included people with vaginismus who came from varied ethnic, cultural, and religious backgrounds, and those who identified as sexually and gender diverse such as varied sexual orientations, queer, trans-gender, non-binary gender, or intersex. The interviews were audio recorded and transcribed. This dataset contains de-identified transcripts of interviews with 23 health professionals describing how they support people with vaginismus The transcripts of interviews were sent to all participants for member-checking. Transcripts have been de-identified and supplied with pseudonyms. This data cannot be published openly due to ethics conditions. To discuss the data, please contact Rashmi Pithavadian <[email protected]> through ORCID 0000-0002-7499-9393.

Created: 2025-08-12

Data time period: 10 2023 to 28 08 2024

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Clinical and Health Psychology | Clinical Health | Clinical Health Not Elsewhere Classified | Evaluation of Health and Support Services | Evaluation of Health and Support Services Not Elsewhere Classified | Health | Health Sciences | Health Psychology | Health Services and Systems | Health Services and Systems Not Elsewhere Classified | Psychology | Provision of Health and Support Services | Provision of Health and Support Services Not Elsewhere Classified | Public Health | Public Health Not Elsewhere Classified | Sexual health | health assessments | painful sex | reproductive health |

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  • DOI : 10.26183/S1RZ-VX33
  • Local : research-data.westernsydney.edu.au/published/087e2d60771911f09b4ae5fa803fd14b
ACN 633 798 857