Causes Of Frustration In Patients With Erectile Dysfunetion Based On Ego DepletionTheory:A Qualitative Study Ⅱ
Nov 26, 2024
3 Discussion
3.1 Implement targeted psychological intervention to reduce the loss of patients' psychological resources
As one of the more common sexual health dysfunctions in men, erectile dysfunction is a chronic disease caused by multiple factors such as blood vessels, nerves, and psychology, and requires a long treatment time [10]. The patient's psychological resources will show a state of self-depletion during the long-term treatment process. Patients with severe self-depletion are prone to failure in cognitive, emotional and behavioral control, which makes them fall into a frustrated mood [11]. This study shows that in addition to the impact of the disease symptoms themselves on patients, the lack of disease-related knowledge, the lack of benefit from disease treatment, and the impact of other negative life events are all important reasons for the loss of patients' psychological resources. In view of the excessive consumption of psychological resources in patients with erectile dysfunction, medical staff should strengthen health education on related disease knowledge, so that patients have a correct understanding of the disease and face up to the occurrence and prognosis of the disease. Studies have shown that erectile dysfunction can cause heavy psychological harm to men and affect their quality of life, marriage quality, family harmony and stability [12]. Therefore, medical staff should deeply evaluate the psychological condition of patients with erectile dysfunction, patiently listen to the real demands of patients, and understand the real reasons for the negative emotions of patients. According to the existing problems of patients, targeted psychological intervention plans should be formulated to reduce the impact of disease symptoms on patients' negative emotions and enhance patients' sense of benefit from disease diagnosis and treatment, thereby reducing the consumption of patients' psychological resources.
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3.2 Pay attention to multiple support channels to help patients supplement their psychological resources
Research shows that unhealthy behaviors are prone to cause male diseases such as prostatitis, which in turn lead to erectile dysfunction [13]. Patients with erectile dysfunction cannot achieve normal erections during sexual intercourse and believe that they have failed in their male roles. The failure of their sexual roles makes them self-enclosed and unwilling to communicate with relatives and friends around them, and unwilling to accept help and care [14]. Therefore, the more patients are affected by the disease, the less psychological resources they have, which in turn increases their sense of frustration. Previous studies on the negative thinking of patients with erectile dysfunction have shown that subjective support in social support and the degree of support utilization have significant effects on patients' perception of negative thinking [15]. Spouse support plays a key role in intimate relationships. Spouse support helps alleviate the adverse effects of sexual life crises on intimate relationships, and good spouse support can enhance the happiness of intimate relationships [15]. In addition, the cost of treatment and examination for patients with erectile dysfunction is relatively high, which increases the economic burden of the disease on patients [16]. The results of this study show that lack of emotional support, economic pressure and external information misleading are important factors that reduce the psychological resource replenishment of patients with erectile dysfunction, which in turn aggravates the frustration of patients. Therefore, for patients with erectile dysfunction, corresponding measures should be taken from multiple angles, including family support and social support, to jointly promote the psychological resource replenishment of patients.
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3.3 Stimulate confidence in disease treatment and enhance the ability to regulate psychological resources
The self-depletion theory believes that psychological resource depletion can be restored and replenished through certain compensation and regulation methods [17]. This study shows that cognitive bias, thinking inhibition and lack of security will reduce the psychological resource regulation ability of patients. Studies have shown that when psychological resources are excessively depleted, timely replenishment of psychological resources is crucial to the physiological and psychological recovery of individuals [9]. Therefore, medical staff should pay attention to the replenishment of patients' psychological resources during the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Stimulating patients' positive emotions is an important means of resource recovery. Studies have shown that when individuals experience resource depletion, positive emotions can effectively promote the replenishment of self-control resources [18]. As a patient-centered intervention model, narrative nursing has been shown to help patients with erectile dysfunction establish a sustained and effective self-management mechanism, enabling patients to better manage negative emotions [19]. Cognitive behavioral therapy management programs have also been shown to improve the negative thinking state of patients with psychological erectile dysfunction [20]. Therefore, during the diagnosis and treatment of the disease, we should care about the patient's feelings about the disease, give patients advice that is beneficial to their health, enhance the patient's ability to regulate psychological resources, and thus reduce their sense of frustration.
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Conclusion
This study found that the psychological resource depletion factors that lead to frustration in patients with erectile dysfunction involve excessive psychological resource consumption, insufficient psychological resource compensation, and weakened psychological resource regulation. Excessive psychological resource depletion and insufficient regulation and compensation will trigger negative thinking in patients.
It is necessary to intervene in the causes of psychological resource depletion in patients to improve their frustration. Qualitative research cannot fully reveal the causes of frustration in patients with erectile dysfunction. Future research can use longitudinal tracking qualitative interviews to gain a deeper understanding of the psychological depletion status of patients with erectile dysfunction at different stages, and provide a more comprehensive basis for the formulation of personalized disease management plans.
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