Behavioral Therapies for Management of Premature Ejaculation: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Premature ejaculation (PE) is defined by short ejaculatory latency and inability to delay ejaculation causing distress. Management may involve behavioral and/or pharmacological approaches.

Aim

To systematically review the randomized controlled trial (RCT) evidence for behavioral therapies in the management of PE.

Methods

Nine databases including MEDLINE were searched up to August 2014. Included RCTs compared behavioral therapy against waitlist control or another therapy, or behavioral plus drug therapy against drug treatment alone. [Correction added on 10 September 2015, after first online publication: Search period has been amended from August 2013 to August 2014.].

Main outcome measure

Intravaginal ejaculatory latency time (IELT), sexual satisfac

SUBMITTER: Cooper K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4599555 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature