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

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 [email protected] through ORCID 0000-0002-7499-9393.