Eligibility criteria
diabetes and cardiovascular disease, cancer, psychosis, chronic diseases affecting sexual relations, depression
CANCER, DISEASE, DISORDERS, BREAST CANCER
Inclusion criteria were: willingness to participate in the study, age between 18 and 45 years, being married and sexually active, a history of breast cancer, passage of at least 6 months since the end of treatment, no disease, no history of participating in sexual health education and counseling sessions, and access to the internet and a smart phone and couples do not have another permanent or temporary partner. Exclusion criteria were: affliction of the patient or her spouse with chronic diseases affecting sexual relations such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease, consumption of any drug affecting sexual relations by the patient or her spouse (self-reported), affliction with other types of cancer, and patient’s or her spouse’s affliction with serious psychological disorders such as severe depression and psychosis and severe conflict between couples.The first-generation random allocation method was used to assign the eligible participants into two intervention and active control groups.Each participant was given a number from 1 to 80.Then, using the website The selection of each block as intervention or active control group was done by a person outside the study and based on lottery.