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Volume 6 Issue 2 February 2016

‘How Research Helps Manage Patients’

We did a retrospective study of patients attending OPDs of a private clinic and a teaching hospital. There were 126 and 100 cases respectively of sexual problems which formed 2% & 5% of total cases seen were published in the Indian Journal of Behavioral sciences (Vol. 5, No. 2, 1995). The findings were real eye openers for the practitioner of Sexual Medicine:

1. All varieties of sexual problems can present at OPD.
2. Dhat Syndrome is a primary or the only diagnosis in half of the patients.
3. Among specific sexual disorders, Dhat Syndrome was seen in 2/3rd of them.
4. Overall 85% of them had recognizable Dhat Syndrome.
5. Follow up was invariably poor except for Dhat Syndrome
6. Sex education forms the primary line of management in all the cases.
7. Sexual Aversion Disorder seen in females, was the most difficult to treat.
8. Couples had better outcome.
9. Premature ejaculation was the easiest to treat and had the best prognosis.
10. Desire disorders were common and erectile & orgasmic disorders invariably followed it