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This project will evaluate sexual dysfunction in women who have had surgery for gynecologic cancer. The subjects will complete a set of questionnaires about health, daily living, sexual encounters, and pain before their surgery and three times following. Each subject will be randomized to receive either lidocaine or a placebo that is applied vaginally immediately prior to any sexual encounters for approximately 6 months while maintaining a journal of sexual encounters and pain. The subjects and healthcare providers will be blinded to the treatment randomization until intervention and data collection is complete. Total participation will last up to one year from the date of enrollment. Subjects will visit the clinic at the same time as regular cancer care visits, receive the blinded intervention and complete the surveys.


Clinical Trial Description

Once consented, subjects will complete nine short surveys (The Female Sexual Function Index, The PHQ-9, the GAD-7, the Social Provision Score (SPS), Rosenberg's Body Self-Esteem Index, the Severity of Posttraumatic Stress (PTS) Symptoms Scale, the Adverse Childhood Events Index, the Short Form (SF)-12, and the Dyadic Adjustment Scale) at their initial visit, assessing physical, psychological, and social elements related to sexuality. Subjects will then have the tumor reduction surgery. Twelve weeks after her surgery, each subject will be asked to complete the same nine-survey packet. Once the second packet is completed, subjects will be randomized to receive either aqueous lidocaine (4%) or placebo with instructions to apply the solution to three cotton balls and place them on the perineum/vaginal introitus for one minute prior to sexual intercourse. Subjects will be educated on the use of this blinded intervention and be asked to keep a diary of sexual encounters, including a simple pictorial pain scale for each encounter. Subjects and providers are blinded to the assigned intervention. Once subjects complete three months of perineal intervention, they will be asked at a follow-up visit (12 weeks following randomization) to complete the survey packet for a third time. Subjects will then continue their perineal intervention, keep a diary of sexual encounters with the pain scale and return after another three-month interval for a fourth completion of the survey packet. Sexual encounter diaries and pain scale assessments will be collected and their participation in the trial will conclude. Also at the time of this concluding follow-up visit in the Gynecologic Oncology Clinic, patients will receive counseling by a gynecologic oncologist regarding education about sexual dysfunction, the possibility of experiencing sexual dysfunction, and a potential referral for further treatment of sexual dysfunction. The subject will remain blinded to the randomized intervention until the conclusion of the study. Subjects will be unblinded and informed of assigned intervention at the conclusion of the study via a letter sent to their home address from the researchers. ;


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NCT number NCT03801031
Study type Interventional
Source University of Iowa
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Status Terminated
Phase Phase 4
Start date June 6, 2019
Completion date November 3, 2021

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