Healing Together: Partners' Experiences in the Journey of Sexual Trauma Recovery Through the Intervention Take Your Sexuality Back for Sexually Traumatized Women.

This study aims to gain insight into the experiences of partners to participants in the "Take Your Sexuality Back" intervention groups, evaluate the intervention's acceptability, and identify necessary modifications. This study is part of a larger project that seeks to establish a scientific basis for this innovative, group-based treatment to help women who have experienced sexual trauma heal their sexuality. Before implementing the intervention in the healthcare system and initiating a larger randomized controlled trial, the investigators will evaluate the intervention's feasibility and potential efficacy, as well as gain a more comprehensive understanding of treatment outcomes. In addition to collecting quantitative data, it is crucial to gather qualitative data on participants' and participants partners´ experiences. In this study, data will be obtained through in-depth interviews with partners´ to group participants after they complete the intervention.

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Key information

Conditions

Sexual Abuse Mental Disorders Partner Posttraumatic Stress Symptom Sexual Trauma Stress Disorders, Traumatic Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Telemark Hospital Trust

Skien, Telemark, 3710, Norway

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Being partner of a participant in the intervention group.

Exclusion criteria

Living in an abusive relationship with the participant in the intervention group

Treatment and study plan

"Take your sexuality back"

Behavioral

The intervention is trauma-sensitive and focus both on traumatized sexuality and positive sexuality. It incorporates regulatory skills to prevent re-traumatization when addressing sex-positive themes, thus accommodating a wide range of trauma-related symptoms, sexual shame, sexual dysfunctions, and regulation difficulties. The intervention integrates psychoeducation, exercises, reflections and sharing. The intervention include partners to participants in two of the sessions.

Primary outcomes

What are the partners' experiences of participating in the intervention and of being witness to and taking part in their partners (participants) process during the intervention?

Time frame: 1-2 weeks after participants have completed the intervention.

In-depth interviews investigating partners´ experiences and perspectives of the intervention groups, with the aim of identifying areas for potential improvement in the intervention and specifically how partners can best be involved in the rehabilitation process. Interviews will be analyzed through a descriptive phenomenological method.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Sykehuset Telemark

Other Gov

Collaborators

Norwegian University of Science and Technology
University of Agder

Registry information

Official study title

Take Your Sexuality Back - a Feasibility Study of a New Intervention for Sexually Traumatized Women

Important dates

Study start: 2025
Primary completion: 2026
Study completion: 2028
First posted: May 6, 2026
Registry last updated: May 6, 2026

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