Impotence Or Erectile Dysfunction, What Is Worse...
Written by Richard Simmons | Friday, 12 December 2008 | There is 1 comment
There’s a lot of mystery and taboo surrounding sexual problems
An interesting study done in Canada shows that the way that an illness is described to a patient can have a big effect on determining whether that patient feels his illness is serious or not. The researchers from McMaster University designed a questionnaire for 52 students and evaluated the perception of seriousness for both the commonly used phrase to describe an illness and also the medical term for the same illness. For example they were asked to evaluate what sounded more serious, 1. Myocardial infarction or 2. Heart attack.
In the same way the students were asked to evaluate what they perceived to be more serious, 1. Erectile dysfunction or 2. Impotence. The results showed that erectile dysfunction was perceived to be the worst of the two. However not everybody agrees. In the Ukmedix Newsroom we conducted our own mini questionnaire and it appears that the word Impotence had many connotations of lack of manliness and weakness and even psychological problems, whereas the phrase erectile dysfunction because it has been so discussed and talked about since the arrival of Viagra has become perceived as a less problematic condition.
In fact on further evaluation at Ukmedix News we reckoned that for people who actually understand what the condition is about (in that it is a simple blood flow problem in the penile artery) the word erectile dysfunction is not deemed to be threatening. However for men and women who do not understand what this illness is all about the words erectile dysfunction appear to be pretty scary.
If you are having problems with an erection it is important that you speak your doctor so that he can explain exactly what is causing your condition. There’s a lot of mystery and taboo surrounding sexual problems and it is only when there are fully explained that men and women can realise that in fact in the majority of cases they are not that serious and can be cured with either lifestyle changes or medication.
