Objective: Premature ejaculation (PE) is probably the most common and least unders-tood of all male sexual dysfunctions. Treatment ratio of PE is also unknown, especially in Tur-key. Aim of this study was to determine the prevelance of PE and the treatment ratio of it.
Materials and Methods: 107 men who were married and who came urology outpa-tient clinic to accompany with a patient were involved in the study between May 2007 and January 2008. Initially, each participant -aged from 25 to 50 years- was asked to complete a Premature Ejaculation Diagnostic Tool (PEDT) questionnaire, whose results were used to diag-nose presence or absence of PE. Thirty-three of all participants were then requested to complete another questionnaire to learn if they seek a tre-atment for PE or not, and the reasons of them.
Results: The mean age of the participants was 34.68 (25-49) years. The mean PEDT score was 6.5±2.4. PEDT score of the 74 participants were equal or smaller than 8 (69.15%). 8 parti-cipants’ PEDT score were 9 or 10 (7.47%). The last 25 participants noted equal or greater than 11 (23.36%). Twenty-eight of the 33 partici-pants who had PE stated that they did not seek a treatment for PE. When asked why they did not seek for the treatment, the most common answer was: “I was ashamed”.
Conclusion: According to the results of this study the prevalence of PE is about 23 per-cent among middle aged man in Turkey. Also, this study highlighted the lack of treatment aga-inst PE.
Key Words: Premature ejaculation, treat-ment ration, prevalence
Abstract
Objective: Premature ejaculation (PE) is probably the most common and least unders-tood of all male sexual dysfunctions. Treatment ratio of PE is also unknown, especially in Tur-key. Aim of this study was to determine the prevelance of PE and the treatment ratio of it.
Materials and Methods: 107 men who were married and who came urology outpa-tient clinic to accompany with a patient were involved in the study between May 2007 and January 2008. Initially, each participant -aged from 25 to 50 years- was asked to complete a Premature Ejaculation Diagnostic Tool (PEDT) questionnaire, whose results were used to diag-nose presence or absence of PE. Thirty-three of all participants were then requested to complete another questionnaire to learn if they seek a tre-atment for PE or not, and the reasons of them.
Results: The mean age of the participants was 34.68 (25-49) years. The mean PEDT score was 6.5±2.4. PEDT score of the 74 participants were equal or smaller than 8 (69.15%). 8 parti-cipants’ PEDT score were 9 or 10 (7.47%). The last 25 participants noted equal or greater than 11 (23.36%). Twenty-eight of the 33 partici-pants who had PE stated that they did not seek a treatment for PE. When asked why they did not seek for the treatment, the most common answer was: “I was ashamed”.
Conclusion: According to the results of this study the prevalence of PE is about 23 per-cent among middle aged man in Turkey. Also, this study highlighted the lack of treatment aga-inst PE.
Key Words: Premature ejaculation, treat-ment ration, prevalence