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Screening impotence by home nocturnal tumescence self‐monitoring
Author(s) -
Reid D.,
Glass C. A.,
Evans C. M.,
Turner S.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1990.tb00910.x
Subject(s) - nocturnal penile tumescence , nocturnal , tumescence , psychology , medicine , erectile dysfunction , psychiatry , erectile function
Twenty subjects complaining of impotence were assessed using nocturnal penile tumescence (NPT), neurological, vascular and hormonal analysis. Subjects undertook NPT in both home and hospital environments: 10 hospital first and 10 home first. There were high levels of agreement between diagnosis using NPT in the two conditions and diagnosis from the physiological tests. There was a high correlation of frequency of erections between the home and hospital conditions, together with a high consecutive night reliability when using the monitor in the home condition ( r = .94, p = .001).