Anti-psychotics induced sexual dysfunction

ABSTRACT

Background: Sexual dysfunction associated with the use of antipsychotic drugs is quite prevalent affecting the patients' quality of life and one of the reasons for non-compliance. This important aspect is underestimated and overlooked by the treating professionals, partly because patients rarely talk about their dysfunction. Due to the scarcity of local data on the subject the objective of the present study was to explore and compare the prevalence of sexual dysfunction associated with antipsychotic drugs