title: Clinical intervention framework for a sexual complaint of the perimenopause.
abstract: Integrative systems therapy, a sexual therapy model, can be used by the nurse-midwife in evaluating and managing symptomatic complaints that may lead to sexual problems. Vaginal dryness, commonly experienced by many perimenopausal women, is one of many presenting complaints that will benefit from such a systemic approach to investigation and treatment.
authors.affiliation: University of Minnesota School of Nursing, Minneapolis 55455-0342.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Plumbo
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009721:Nurse Midwives; D017697:Premenopause / Q000502:physiology*; D012731:Sex Counseling / Q000379:methods*; D014621:Vagina / Q000502:physiology*