Table 1 An example of analysis process
Theme | Category | Code | Story |
|---|---|---|---|
Feeling inability to play the role of femininity | |||
Dyspareunia | |||
- Complaint of pain during the coitus | - I suffered from painful sex; I couldn’t have sex anymore. I cried… | ||
- I felt a severe pain under my belly. | |||
- Disappearance of pain after the coitus | - …I had no pain after intercourse. | ||
Feeling of explosive pain during the coitus | - ….pain was so severe that I felt an explosive pain during sex. | ||
- Sexual disability | - …I couldn’t have different positions in sex due to my severe pain. | ||
- … when it took long I stopped. I could not tolerate it. | |||
- Burning sensation during the coitus | - … I could not tolerate it because I had burning sensation in my uterus. | ||
Infertility occurrence | |||
- Complaint of infertility | - … I did not get pregnant after one year and it is very difficult for me to have a baby… | ||
- Ineffective infertility treatments | - …I had not successful IVF… | ||
- History of abortion | - I had an abortion two years ago… |