A Survey of Knowledge and Attitude toward Premature Ejaculation: a Case Study of Clients at Men’s Clinic

Abstract

The aims of this research were to study the knowledge and survey the source of Premature Ejaculation (PE) information, the attitudes toward PE and to describe factors associated with PE knowledge and attitudes such as socio-demographics (age, marital status, educational background) and received information of PE clients at the STI-men’s clinic at Division Bureau of AIDS/TB/STIs, Department of Disease Control (Bang Ruk), Bangkok, Thailand. The subjects included 356 men (aged 18 to 59 year-old) which were selected by simple random sampling. The data were collected by using self-reported questionnaires and analyzed by multiple regression analysis. The result showed that subjects had average age of 35.1 ± 1.07, 56.7% were single, 47.8% had educational level of high school, 51.1% had low level of knowledge, 58.4% had receiving information about  PE and 45.7% received information about PE from internet. The factors associated with knowledge of PE were educational higher than high school (β=.20, p<0.001), had received information of PE (β=.16, p<0.001), and attitude of PE (β=.47, p<0.001). These factors were positively, moderately level, and significantly correlated with knowledge toward PE (r=.57, p<.001). The factors associated with attitude were age (β=.12, p<0.05), received information about PE (β=.12, p<0.05), and knowledge of PE (β=.49, p<0.001). These factors were positively, moderately level, and significantly correlated with attitudes toward PE (r=.55, p<.001).