AN ASOCIATION BETWEEN ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS- A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY

Abstract

Background: Erectile dysfunction is a major chronic condition affecting 
hundreds of millions of individual’s worldwide and psychological experience of 
erectile dysfunction. Aims and Objective: To study an association 
between erectile dysfunction and its related psychological disorders. 
Methods and Materials: A questionnaire-based cross-sectional study 
conducted in the department of psychiatry in Madhubani Medical College, 
Madhubani, Bihar, from 20th October 2023 to 15th February 2024 after 
getting approval from institutional ethical committee of the college. Data 
from 126 patients with ED aged 18–50 years were collected. The 5-item 
International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF-5) questionnaire, self-rating 
anxiety scale (SAS) and self-rating depression scale (SDS) were used to 
evaluate erectile function, anxiety and depression, respectively.
Univariate analysis and multivariate linear regression analyses were used 
to explore the associated factors of depression and anxiety.