Department of Psychology, University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, BC, Canada.
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
Sex Med Rev. 2020 Apr;8(2):242-255. doi: 10.1016/j.sxmr.2018.03.003. Epub 2018 Apr 18.
Body awareness has been linked to female sexual response in laboratory manipulation studies and is used in clinical settings to ameliorate sexual difficulties.
To evaluate and review the literature on body awareness and female sexual function.
A literature review was conducted through PsycInfo, PsycARTICLES, and PubMed using terms such as body awareness and sexual function. A manual search also was conducted using reference lists.
Studies were included if manipulated body awareness was a main variable of interest and if outcome variables included female sexual functioning or sexual response.
29 studies were included in this review and grouped into 3 categories: sensate focus (n = 7), mindfulness (n = 13), and laboratory manipulations of body awareness (n = 9). Body awareness is identified as an area of importance for female sexuality. Explicit instructions aimed at increasing body awareness, including those used in the clinical techniques of sensate focus and mindfulness, appear to enhance sexual response for many women, including women with low sexual arousal, hypoactive desire, anorgasmia, and sexual pain and in non-clinical samples. Induction of implicit body awareness also resulted in increased arousal in 1 study.
Body awareness appears to enhance sexual well-being for some women. This is supported by laboratory manipulation studies conducted on women with and without sexual difficulties and by intervention studies using sensate focus and mindfulness for women with a range of sexual problems. The extent to which enhanced body awareness accounts for results in intervention studies is often unclear because of other features of the interventions and/or study design. This review provides the field with a summary of intervention and laboratory studies on body awareness, with results pointing toward body awareness as an integral component of treatment for sexual dysfunction. Seal BN, Meston CM. The Impact of Body Awareness on Women's Sexual Health: A Comprehensive Review. Sex Med Rev 2020;8:242-255.
在实验室操作研究中，身体意识与女性性反应有关，并且在临床环境中用于改善性困难。
评估和回顾关于身体意识和女性性功能的文献。
通过 PsycInfo、PsycARTICLES 和 PubMed 使用身体意识和性功能等术语进行文献回顾。还使用参考文献列表进行了手动搜索。
如果操纵身体意识是主要关注的变量，并且如果结果变量包括女性性功能或性反应，则纳入研究。
本综述共纳入 29 项研究，并分为 3 类：感觉焦点（n=7）、正念（n=13）和身体意识的实验室操作（n=9）。身体意识被确定为女性性健康的重要领域。旨在提高身体意识的明确指导，包括在感觉焦点和正念的临床技术中使用的指导，似乎可以增强许多女性的性反应，包括性欲低下、性欲低下、性高潮障碍、性疼痛和非临床样本中的女性。在一项研究中，诱导内隐身体意识也导致了唤醒的增加。
身体意识似乎可以提高一些女性的性幸福感。这得到了对有和没有性困难的女性进行的实验室操作研究以及对有一系列性问题的女性使用感觉焦点和正念的干预研究的支持。由于干预措施和/或研究设计的其他特征，增强的身体意识在干预研究中所产生的结果往往不明确。本综述为该领域提供了关于身体意识的干预和实验室研究的摘要，结果表明身体意识是性功能障碍治疗的一个组成部分。Seal BN，Meston CM。身体意识对女性健康的影响：综合评价。性医学评论 2020；8：242-255。
