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Patients with psychosexual concerns may never address their unmet psychosexual needs [1, 2, 3] (Level 2a/2b, recommendation B). Additionally, it means, they experience barriers to asking for help, due to erectile dysfunction being viewed as a ‘taboo’ subject [2]. O’Brien et al., [2] is a moderate paper according to [4] with small numbers (n = 35) and no specific details about how many patients responded it highlights unmet psychosexual needs (Recommendation B) [2]. Additionally, no further statistics are used to analyse the results, which does not contribute to strengthening the paper significantly. The overall lesson from O’Brien et al. [2] are there is a barrier to psychosexual care.
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Goonewardene, S.S., Persad, R. (2018). Unmet Needs and Psychosexual Concerns. In: Prostate Cancer Survivorship . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65358-7_22
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