Disfunción sexual eréctil en pacientes diabéticos atendidos en la consulta multidisciplinaria de Terapia y Orientación Sexual. Manzanillo

The impotence associated with diabetes can appear at any age. A descriptive investigation was carried out to describe the morbidity of erectile sexual dysfunction in diabetic patients. The universe of work was made up of all the diabetic patients seen in the multidisciplinary municipal consultation of Sexual Orientation and Therapy (n = 18, 100 %) in the period of February 2016-February 2017. The variables age, type of diabetes mellitus, were explored, time of evolution of diabetes, cause of dysfunction (psychogenic or organic), intensity of erectile dysfunction and levels of anxiety as a state and as a trait, several instruments were applied for the collection of data as psychological clinical interview, questionnaire for the Male Sexual Health (IIFE) and Trait-State Anxiety Inventory (IDARE). The data were expressed in absolute numbers and percentages. We found predominance of type II diabetic patients over 50 years of age and more than 10 years of suffering from the disease and included in the stage of life of middle and older adult, the cause of the dysfunction is mostly organic, the intensity of erectile sexual dysfunction in the patients was severe and moderate, mostly with the diagnosis of type II diabetes and when anxiety type was assessed, anxiety at medium and high levels prevailed. It is concluded that high morbidity of maintenance erectile dysfunction was found in diabetic patients attended in the specialized consultation of orientation and sexual therapy.