Abstract
Premenopausal women with breast cancer received insufficient counseling on contraception, early menopause, infertility, fertility preservation, and sexuality, despite their willingness to receive information. CONCLUSION: In Turkey, premenopausal women with breast cancer should receive comprehensive...
|
PMID: 20152978
PDF is available here.
Abstract
It was also discovered that levels of sexual satisfaction were shown to be higher among women and men in the experimental group who had attended premarital sexual counselling education than the women and men in the control group. A recommendation to encourage engaged couples to attend premarital sex...
|
PMID: 19653960
PDF is available here.
Abstract
There is a dearth of conceptual, clinical, and empirical work in the area of male hypoactive sexual desire disorder. Instead, the sexual medicine approach has focused on erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation. This conceptual/clinical article focuses on a couple, integrative, psychobiosocial...
|
PMID: 19105080
PDF is available here.
Abstract
We found that marital satisfaction was affected by the mode of marriage....
|
PMID: 19105081
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Penile extenders should be regarded as a minimally invasive and effective treatment option to elongate the penile shaft in patients seeking treatment for a short penis....
|
PMID: 18990153
PDF is available here.
Abstract
The aim of this paper was to present basic data about gender identity disorders and psychotic transsexual desires. From time to time in scientific literature there are descriptions of a diagnosis of psychotic disorders in persons previously diagnosed and treated as transsexuals, in w...
|
PMID: 20209883
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Urogenital aging and female sexual dysfunction (FSD) are significant problems following menopause. Estrogen decline is one of the key factors contributing to sexual functioning because of its crucial role for genital arousal (vasocongestion and lubrication) and other domains of the sexual response....
|
PMID: 19811254
PDF is available here.
Abstract
There is evidence that group therapy improves ED. Focused sex group therapy showed greater efficacy than control group. Men randomized to receive psychotherapy plus sildenafil showed significant improvement of ED and were less likely than those receiving only sildenafil to drop out. Regarding to the...
|
PMID: 18564156
PDF is available here.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Despite advances in prevention and treatment, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) remain an important cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. PURPOSE: To systematically review the evidence for behavioral counseling interventions to prevent STIs in adolescents and adults...
|
PMID: 18838730
PDF is available here.
Abstract
DESCRIPTION: New U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations about behavioral counseling of adolescents and adults to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs). METHODS: The USPSTF reviewed the evidence on the benefits and harms of counseling. The review included studies evalua...
|
PMID: 18838729
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Sexual dysfunction is highly prevalent in the aging population, with hypoactive sexual desire disorder and pain disorders being the most frequent in women, and premature ejaculation and erectile dysfunction being the most frequent in men. The specific characteristics of the sexual ill health in elde...
|
PMID: 18637999
PDF is available here.
Abstract
The three treatments were significantly efficient, and the best treatment was sildenafil associated with counseling....
|
PMID: 18410298
PDF is available here.
Abstract
After treatment completion, gynaecological cancer survivors may face long-term challenges and late effects, specific to this disease. Available research on supportive care needs of women with gynaecological cancer is limited. This study aimed to determine the prevalence and correlates of unmet needs...
|
PMID: 17680554
PDF is available here.
Abstract
This article describes and discusses a teaching case of a clinical training situation involving a gay marriage and family therapy student working with a same-sex affectional couple. The conceptual pillars of this teaching case, relational safety and liberating spaces, are advanced as illustrations o...
|
PMID: 18412830
PDF is available here.
Abstract
We report on 519 clinicians (80% adjusted response rate). Clinicians provided services to selected patients they considered high risk. Universal practices were less common: risk assessment (56%), prevention counseling (60%), STD tests (30%), and HIV tests (19%). Universal services were more common a...
|
PMID: 18007273
PDF is available here.
Abstract
The first visit for contraception essentially aims at listening and providing information and counseling. The choice of the contraceptive methods takes into account the contra-indications of the method as well as the patient personnel history, the type of demand, the needs and the fears. For young w...
|
PMID: 18326360
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Erectile dysfunction is a common problem affecting sexual function in men. Approximately one in 10 men over the age of 40 is affected by this condition and the incidence is age related. Erectile dysfunction is a sentinel marker for several reversible conditions including peripheral and coronary vasc...
|
PMID: 18391556
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Epidemiological studies have found that problems with sexual desire are one of the most common sexual complaints in females. Such complaints are far less common in males. In women, problems with sexual desire have been found to be associated with age, relationship duration, relationship distress, an...
|
PMID: 18391555
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Premature ejaculation (PE) is distinguished as a 'complaint' versus a 'syndrome'. Complaints of PE in men with normal ejaculation time durations are highly prevalent among the general male population. However, PE syndromes characterized by a rigid pattern of very short ejaculation times have a much...
|
PMID: 18391557
PDF is available here.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Prostate cancer is the most common male cancer in the Western world. The most substantial long term morbidity from this cancer is sexual dysfunction with consequent adverse changes in couple and intimate relationships. Research to date has not identified an effective way to improve sexua...
|
PMID: 18687149
PDF is available here.
Abstract
It has been well documented that most patients do not volunteer information about sexual problems, and that health care providers should incorporate at least a brief sexual assessment into routine health histories and medical evaluations. While not every nurse can be a sexual counselor, listening to...
|
PMID: 17996753
PDF is available here.
Abstract
This article presents an overview of the literature on the impact cancer and associated therapies have on male sexuality, interventions to maintain or improve sexual function after cancer, and identification of gaps in health care providers' knowledge of this topic. Normal sexual activity depends on...
|
PMID: 17996755
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Persons with multiple sclerosis require extensive management of the physiologic and psychologic sequelae of their chronic disease process. Sexual intimacy is affected by many of these disease effects, which impacts them in diverse ways. Many persons with multiple sclerosis do not discuss sexual inti...
|
PMID: 17996758
PDF is available here.
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to outline information about people who live with HIV and AIDS and provide nurses with information on how to provide high-quality care for these patients related to sexuality and intimacy. This care is provided through a discussion of relationships, sexuality and sexua...
|
PMID: 17996761
PDF is available here.
Abstract
There are gaps in the research regarding sexuality in women with cancer, making the interventions that are used more expert opinion rather than scientific evidence. There is a need for research about effective interventions, and there is a need to educate nurses to help change practice through commu...
|
PMID: 17996754
PDF is available here.
Abstract
More than 120 kinds of arthritis exist. This article focuses on the more common types of musculoskeletal disorders, which are osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and osteoporosis. Because of the pain, fatigue, and joint stiffness associated with arthritis, physical intimacy may be difficult. These...
|
PMID: 17996759
PDF is available here.
Abstract
We can help these patients and their partners continue to have quality sexual relationships....
|
PMID: 17996760
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Nurses provide care for lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) patients on regular basis, whether they know it or not. Education of health care workers routinely has excluded discussion of patient sexuality, rendering LGB patients invisible or stigmatized, and has offered few tools to nurses to provide qu...
|
PMID: 17996762
PDF is available here.
Abstract
One would think that today's exposure of the topic of sexuality in the electronic and print media would elevate the medical professional's comfort level with communication regarding sexuality issues. However, writers continue to comment on clinician discomfort or lack of discussion with their patien...
|
PMID: 17996764
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Many plastic surgeons gave little or no advice to patients regarding resumption of sexual activity after surgery, and the majority of patients do not initiate the discussion. Most surgeons expect their nursing staff to provide sexual counseling....
|
PMID: 18040188
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Only 24% of trainees reported to routinely asked patients about psychosexual history, 65% felt comfortable about taking a detailed psychosexual history. 81% of trainees reported inadequacy whilst dealing with psychosexual disorders during their training in psychiatry. Only 30% reported asking patien...
|
PMID: 17877656
PDF is available here.
Abstract
CBPI can be used as an effective alternative to individual or group psychotherapy for mastectomy patients.
(c) 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc....
|
PMID: 17443731
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Premature ejaculation (PE) is one of the most common sexual dysfunctions in men, with prevalence rates ranging from 21% to 31%. Because many physicians do not inquire about sexual dysfunction and patients are reluctant to offer it as a medical complaint, PE is underreported in clinical practice. A s...
|
PMID: 17546831
PDF is available here.
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to explore psychiatric patient needs and current nursing practice with regard to sexual counseling and to understand differences in individual patient characteristics. A total of 182 psychiatric patients and 44 psychiatric nurses were purposively selected from a mental...
|
PMID: 17340547
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Female sexual dysfunction is a prevalent problem. Although newer studies are implicating medical risk factors and possible treatments, most patients are currently treated by psychotherapists. The evaluation and treatment of female sexual dysfunction are reviewed from a therapist's perspective.
|
PMID: 17390929
PDF is available here.
Abstract
We wanted to develop a tool for assessment and discussion of sexual problems in the context of disease. This tool should be broadly applicable, easy to use and learn for nonmental health professionals.
Content analysis with respect to the integration of general sexological and diseas...
|
PMID: 17233774
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Hostility towards relationships is one prominent characteristic symptom for disorders of sexual preference (ICD-10) and paraphilias (DSM-IV). Paraphilic symptoms sometimes progress to obsessive or addictive- like forms leading to a loss of self-control but can occur also as single incidents or as ep...
|
PMID: 17177100
PDF is available here.
Abstract
This contribution addresses two different areas of the complex relationship between pharmacotherapy and sexual function and dysfunction in men and women. As many impairments of sexual function are caused by side effects of medications, particularly psychotropic drugs, the first part of the paper des...
|
PMID: 17177095
PDF is available here.
Abstract
We define "sex-psychotherapy" as the methods which are based on Masters and Johnson as well as other symptom-focused and experience- oriented (exercise) psychotherapeutic methods for sexually disturbed couples and singles. These methods have significantly improved the treatment of sexual dysfunction...
|
PMID: 17177096
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Different forms of intersexuality (Disorders of Sex Development, DSD) are described (congenital adrenal hyperplasia, androgen insensitivity, disorders of androgen biosynthesis, gonadal dysgenesis). Treatment interventions for individuals with ambiguous genitalia and untypical sex development are dis...
|
PMID: 17177099
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Premature ejaculation (PE) is one of the most common male sexual dysfunctions. Successful treatment of PE has been hampered by the existence of a variety of definitions and diagnostic criteria and the lack of large, long-term studies of treatment efficacy. Numerous, diverse treatment approaches with...
|
PMID: 17365515
PDF is available here.
Abstract
We must work together with our patients to address and treat sexual concerns....
|
PMID: 17116505
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Chronic heart failure (HF) and erectile dysfunction (ED) are 2 highly prevalent disorders that frequently occur concomitantly. Coronary artery disease, HF, and ED share several common risk factors, including diabetes mellitus, hypertension, smoking, and dyslipidemia. Additionally, the distinct physi...
|
PMID: 16978992
PDF is available here.
Abstract
Many factors affect the clinical application of sex therapy for ED in China. Apart from the shortage of qualified professional sex therapists, some factors from the patients and their partners are at work, such as stress of work, lack of time, home location, education background, relationship betwee...
|
PMID: 17009534
PDF is available here.