Moderate and severe erectile dysfunction equally affects life satisfaction

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• Moderate and severe erectile dysfunction equally
  affects life satisfaction
• AIMS
• To explore the life satisfaction of patients
  with
• erectile dysfunction (ED).
• To examine the relation between severity of ED
• and life satisfaction.

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• METHOD (1)
• Male patients who attended a Sexual and
  Reproductive Health Outpatient Clinic complaining
  for ED.
• Exclusion criteria mental health conditions or
  co-morbidities affecting everyday life.
• Typical basic evaluation
• demographics
• clinical evaluation
• laboratory exams

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• METHOD (2)
• Instruments
• International Index of Erectile Dysfunction
  (IIEF) erectile
• function domain score (items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  15) in order to
• assess severity of ED.
• B. Life Satisfaction Inventory (LSI), 13-item
  scale assessing
• life satisfaction in diverse groups of
  patients.
• Previously published nomograms based on
• healthy Greek population were used.

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RESULTS (1)

• Participants
• 69 consecutive patients with ED currently
  involved in a relationship.
• Age range 22-71 yrs, mean age49.5 (13.7)
• Reliability analysis
• LSI had high internal consistency (a0.82)

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• RESULTS (2)
• ED patients, compared to healthy population, had
  
• significantly lower
• satisfaction from their sexual life (mean 2.0
  vs 3.42)
• total satisfaction from their life (mean 43.63
  vs 46.08)
• ED patients, compared to healthy population, had
  
• significantly more satisfaction
• from their financial status (mean 3.26 vs 2.70)
• from their leisure time activities (mean 3.49
  vs 3.04)

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RESULTS (3)Differences in satisfaction from
sexual life according to different levels of ED
severity
F(2, 65) 9.530, plt0.001
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• CONCLUSIONS
• Men who seek help for ED have lower satisfaction
  with
• sexual life and with their overall life
  compared to healthy
• people.
• Severity of ED has a strong negative impact in
  patients
• satisfaction with sexual life.
• ED patients gain more satisfaction from other
  domains of
• their life (financial status and leisure time
  activities).
• ED patients do not differ from healthy people in
  their
• expressed subjective rating of QoL.