A Brief Online Mindfulness Intervention for Women’s Sexual Desire: The BROWSE Study

Abstract

With growing interest in developing digital health tools for treating sexual dysfunction, this pilot study aimed to determine feasibility and gather preliminary efficacy data of a self-led online mindfulness intervention in comparison to an online psychoeducational intervention for women’s low sexual desire in a community sample (N = 57). After a four-week intervention, participants showed overall improvements on sexual functioning, orgasm, sexual self-pleasure, sexual self-image, and sexual distress, in both treatment arms. Majority completed assigned homework and felt the intervention enhanced their sexual well-being. This study supports the feasibility of a self-led online mindfulness intervention that could help inform future programs.

Acknowledgements

We wish to acknowledge support from Faith Jabs on this project as well as the UBC Department of Psychology Human Subjects Pool. This study was unfunded.

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Data Availability Statement

The data that support the findings of this study are openly available at https://osf.io/tkah4/?view_only=c66b127ee96241f28bb94f51dfd9a065

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