To evaluate the effects of physical therapy modalities to treat women with sexual dysfunction
Searches
There is no restriction on year
Articles published in English
Types of study to be included
Inclusion criteria:
- clinical trial study
- retrospective study
- prospective study
Exclusion criteria:
- bibliographic review
Condition or domain being studied
Sexual dysfunction in women is a challenging and difficult problem to treat. There can be multiple etiologies for these problems, and they can present differently in patients. Practitioners and patients can become frustrated when treatment becomes elusive.
Participants/ population
Inclusion criteria:
- women with sexual dysffunction
- underwent physical therapy modalities
- clinical trials and retrospective/prospective studies
Exclusion criteria:
- bibliographic review
Intervention(s), exposure(s)
The interventions inclusion criteria:
- physical therapy modalities - any modality that use physcial therapy to treat this condition. These modalities include eletrical stimulation, pelvic floor muscle exercise (training), perineal massage and behavioral therapy.
Comparator(s)/ control
The women submitted to physical therapy modalities could be compared with surgical procedures, no treatment and cognitive therapy.
Outcome(s)
Primary outcomes
Sexual disfunction (sexual desire, arousal, orgasmic disorders and/or dyspareunia).
Secondary outcomes
Pelvic floor muscle function
Pain
Quality of life
Risk of bias (quality) assessment
The qualitity of individual studies will be evaluated by JADAD score. Risk of bias will be assessed by I-squared test to evaluate the heterogenity.
Strategy for data synthesis
All included studies will be analyzed together to evaluate the effect of physical therapy treatment on sexual dysfunction.
Analysis of subgroups or subsets
If possible, subgroup analysis will be performed in each physical therapy modality.
Contact details for further information
Neville Ferreira
Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP
Rua Alexander Fleming, n 101
Cidade Universitria Zeferino Vaz
Campinas - So Paulo - Brazil
Zip code: 13.083-881
neville.of@gmail.com
Organisational affiliation of the review
Department of Obstetric and Gynaecology/ Faculty of Medicine - Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Review team
Dr Neville Ferreira, Department of Obstetric and Gynaecology/ Faculty of Medicine - Universidade Estadual de Campinas Miss Karina Tamy, Department of Obstetric and Gynaecology/ Faculty of Medicine - Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Collaborators
Miss Natachie , Department of Obstetric and Gynaecology/ Faculty of Medicine - Universidade Estadual de Campinas Miss Camila Stein, Department of Obstetric and Gynaecology/ Faculty of Medicine - Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Anticipated or actual start date
14 May 2012
Anticipated completion date
21 December 2012
Funding sources/sponsors
There is no funding/financing support
Conflicts of interest
None known
Language
English
Country
Brazil
Subject index terms status
Subject indexing assigned by CRD
Subject index terms
Female; Humans; Physical Therapy Modalities; Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological;
Date of registration in PROSPERO
02 August 2012
Date of publication of this revision
02 August 2012
Stage of review at time of this submission
Started
Completed
Preliminary searches
No
Piloting of the study selection process
Formal screening of search results against eligibility criteria
Data extraction
Risk of bias (quality) assessment
Data analysis
Prospective meta-analysis
PROSPERO This information has been provided by the named contact for this review. CRD has accepted this information in good faith and registered the review in PROSPERO. CRD bears no responsibility or liability for the content of this registration record, any associated files or external websites.
