Therapeutic Strategies in Sexual Function

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Status: Completed

Conditions: Male Sexual Dysfunction; Spinal Cord Injury

Treatments: Other: Therapeutic Strategies

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02908867

THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES SCI

Details and patient eligibility

About

Objectives: To know the main therapeutic strategies used by men with spinal cord injury in sexual dysfunctions.

Full description

Methods: This is a descriptive observational study involving 24 men with a mean age of 32.62 (CI 28.65 to 36.60), with spinal cord injury, recruited in reference services in spinal cord injury Recife (PE). The subjects underwent neurological evaluation in accordance with the guidelines of the International Standards for Neurological Examination and Functional classification of Spinal Cord Injury (ISNCSCI), the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA), assessment of sexual function through the Erectile Function of International Index (IIEF) and answered a semi-structured form to identify therapeutic strategies used in sexual function. To collect information about medicinal plants, a search was made in the surroundings of public markets located in the Metropolitan Region of Recife (PE).

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• clinical diagnosis of traumatic spinal cord injury
• injury time less than six months
• heterosexual
• sexually active

Exclusion criteria

• patients who had erectile dysfunction attributed to endocrine or metabolic disease order
• those who underwent surgery in the genital area, such as radical prostatectomy or penile implant
• cognitive impairment

Trial design

24 participants in 1 patient group

Therapeutic strategies group

Description:

To know the main therapeutic strategies used by men with spinal cord injury in sexual dysfunctions, mainly medicinal plants.

Treatment:

Other: Therapeutic Strategies