A Feasibility Mixed Methods Study of the Intervention Take Your Sexuality Back for Sexually Traumatized Women.

Take Your Sexuality Back - a Feasibility Study of a New Intervention for Sexually Traumatized Women: Preliminary Evaluations of Efficacy and Outcome Measurements

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.

Inclusion Criteria:

1. A history of sexual trauma.
2. Experience trauma-related sexual problems.
3. Age between 18 and 65 years.
4. Enough competence in Norwegian to participate in a psychoeducational group.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Acute suicidality.
2. Serious substance abuse interfering with treatment
3. Severe dissociative or psychotic disorders.
4. Current life crisis interfering with treatment.
5. Living in an abusive relationship. -