Introduction: Dyspareunia or painful intercourse is one of the female sexual disorders. It's unpleasant pain that prevents a woman from having sexual intercourse. Women are there-fore afraid of sexual intercourse and feel shame, guilt or a sense of inferiority. The study of dyspareunia is study of human sexuality. There isn't enough research in Slovenia. Many women don't express feelings of dyspareunia and they keep it to themselves during exter-nal intercourse and don't talk to their gynaecologist, friends or their sexual partner. There are many factors for dyspareunia. Biological, psychological and socio-cultural factors can intertwine with each other. Regardless of the cause of dyspareunia, it must be treated and consulted with a gynaecologist. Purpose: The purpose of the diploma was to investigate woman's sexual disorder - pain in external relations, on the basis of semi-structured inter-views. Work methods: A qualitative research was conducted with a semi-structured inter-view among physiotherapy students who have or have had dyspareunia. When sampling the interviewees, we used purposive sampling based on prior knowledge that the female students know the function of the pelvic floor muscles and at the same time to investigate the impact of dyspareunia in younger women. Results: With the help of exclusion and inc-lusion criteria, we formed a sample of twenty students who anonymously participated in the interviews. We found out that dyspareunia most often occurs during the initial penetra-tion of the penis into the vagina. Students had a negative physical and psychological experience with dyspareunia, such as fear or shame. Half of the students believed that dyspareunia was curable and mentioned that professional help was needed, but less than half of the students sought professional help. The dyspareunia of students did not hinder further sexual intercourse. They used alternative methods and didn't treat it as a sexual di-sorder. Discussion and conclusion: We found that the topic is still very taboo in society and among women and it lack of education. It's necessary to raise awareness in the educa-tion of both professional workers and women themselves about the incidence and health of dyspareunia, provide appropriate professional help and psychological support to manage dyspareunia.
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