Men with erectile dysfunction can gain from Group psychotherapy
July 20, 2007

Erectile dysfunction is spreading like a fire and as sudden as Ed problems are spreading. In result wide spreading of solutions that can resolve this problem. But erectile dysfunction can be physical as well as psychological. Sometimes small factors are also helpful in solving big issues like Men with erectile dysfunction can overcome their problem by taking part in group psychotherapy, according to a Cochrane Systematic Review.

The relation of this therapy with erectile dysfunction is that this problem is more or less interlinked to physiological problems. Also the recent study, which mainly focuses on the role of psychological issues, indicates that depression, low self-esteem, anxiety and other psychosocial stresses can play a significant part in erectile dysfunction.

During this course of testing, the researchers sketch data from nine randomized trials and two quasi-randomized trials, connecting 398 men with erectile dysfunction who had been given psychotherapy, medication, psychotherapy plus medication or vacuum devices. An auxiliary 59 were in non-treatment control groups.

In result they found that 95% of men in the psychosocial therapy group gain from the treatment, while there was no alteration in over the same period of time in the pedals," According to Professor Tamara Melnik, a psychiatrists working at the Universidade de Sao Paulo in Brazil.

But still there is one problem with psychosocial therapy and that is length of therapy time as all of the people are not sure about what the exact therapy is? And for how much time it should have to go for.