Celebrate Pride! The 2025 Victoria Pride Parade is Sunday, July 6, 2054, at 11 AM. See Pride Parade 2025 – Victoria Pride Society for this year’s route!

UpToDate

How to Use UpToDate

Step 1: Sign In to UpToDate at Division BC

Division of Family Practice

Step 2: Once signed in, access UpToDate Here

Division of Family Practice
Q

Celebrate Pride! The 2025 Victoria Pride Parade is Sunday, July 6, 2054, at 11 AM. See Pride Parade 2025 – Victoria Pride Society for this year’s route!

UpToDate

How to Use UpToDate

Step 1: Sign In to UpToDate at Division BC

Division of Family Practice

Step 2: Once signed in, access UpToDate Here

Division of Family Practice
Q

UBC Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology HOLD Trial

Jul 3, 2025

Dr. Katrina Bouchard, Assistant Professor in the UBC Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and her team are recruiting participants with low sexual desire/arousal and their partners for the HOLD Trial, a clinical trial of couple-based sex therapy.

About the HOLD Trial

Couples in the HOLD Trial will be randomized to receive couple-based sex therapy for low sexual desire/arousal right away or be place on a waitlist and offered therapy about 11 months later. All therapy is complimentary (free) and provided by a PhD-level clinical psychology trainee on a virtual care platform. Thus, the HOLD Trial is accessible to patients who live anywhere in BC. This trial is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the investigators from all three sites are listed here: https://phaselab.med.ubc.ca/studies/hold-trial/.

Interested patients who seem to experience low sexual desire/arousal can be invited to contact our study team via email phase.HOLD@ubc.ca to be screened for eligibility. Please see attached recruitment materials or visit our website: https://phaselab.med.ubc.ca/studies/hold-trial/ . 

Please note that physicians do not need to fully assess your patients’ eligibility for the study. However, we have included the eligibility criteria below for your information. The criteria are also listed on the recruitment materials.

  • Patient is at least 18 years old, a woman (trans inclusive) or assigned female at birth, and lives in BC
  • Patient has been in a relationship and living with their partner for 1+ year(s)
  • Patient is fluent in English and has access to the Internet (to understand and access study materials)
  • Patient (woman or female) has been experiencing low sexual desire/arousal for 6 months or longer
  • Patient is not currently pregnant or within one-year postpartum

Please contact Katrina.Bouchard@ubc.ca with any questions or concerns.