Psychological hindrance and its treatment in chronic prostatitis patients / 中华男科学杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To improve the knowledge of psychological hindrance in chronic prostatitis (CP) patients and study the treatment strategy of it.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Two hundred and fifty-eight CP patients with psychological hindrance, aged 16 to 65 years (average 33 years), were divided into the psychotherapy group (148 cases) and the control (110 cases). The control were only treated with antibiotics and Chinese traditional medicines, while the psychotherapy group were treated with cognitive therapy besides the above medicines.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The symptoms in the psychotherapy group were improved obviously compared with those in the control. Both the cure rate (P < 0.05) and the effective rate (P < 0.001) of the psychotherapy group were higher than those of the control.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Psychotherapy is an effective way to treat CP patient with psychological hindrance.</p>