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

    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 <17658414@student.westernsydney.edu.au> through ORCID 0000-0002-7499-9393.


    • Data publication title Health professionals' perspectives to support people with vaginismus: Qualitative interview data
    • Description

      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 <17658414@student.westernsydney.edu.au> through ORCID 0000-0002-7499-9393.


    • Data type dataset
    • Keywords
      • Sexual health
      • reproductive health
      • painful sex
      • health assessments
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    • FoR codes
      • 420699 - Public health not elsewhere classified
      • 420399 - Health services and systems not elsewhere classified
      • 52 - PSYCHOLOGY
      • 520304 - Health psychology
      SEO codes
      • 200199 - Clinical health not elsewhere classified
      • 200299 - Evaluation of health and support services not elsewhere classified
      • 2003 - Provision of health and support services
      • 200399 - Provision of health and support services not elsewhere classified
      Temporal (time) coverage
    • Start date 2023/10/01
    • End date 2024/08/28
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    • Locations
      • Australia
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      The Data Manager is: Rashmi Pithavadian
      Access conditions Conditional
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    • Statement of rights in data Copyright Western Sydney University
      Citation Pithavadian, Rashmi (2025): Health professionals' perspectives to support people with vaginismus: Qualitative interview data. Western Sydney University. https://doi.org/10.26183/s1rz-vx33