Use pattern of oral PDE-5 inhibitors in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

الملخص EN

This study was designed to investigate the use pattern of oral phosphodiesterase Type 5 inhibitors in Jeddah, SA.

All participants (n = 500) above 18 years who sought oral phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors from community pharmacies were included in this study.

Questionnaires were distributed to a 100 community pharmacies and a computer program was used for data analysis.

Of the 500 distributed questionnaires, 337 were received (response rate 67.4 %), it was found that 270 (80 %) of the respondents had been taking anti-erectile dysfunction drugs without consultation with their doctors and 67 (20 %) of respondents had been using their drugs after consultation.

The majority of the respondents, 188 (55.7 %) had been using phosphodiesterase Type 5 without any medical evidence of Erectile Dysfunction as indicated by themselves, which is statistically significant (p ≤ 0.005).

It was found that 115 (34.1 %) of the respondents were not aware of the side effects.

The correlation between satisfaction of sexual performance before and after using is (rho.

= 0.516) and is highly significant (p < 0.001).

There is an obvious misuse of oral phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors in the Jeddah community.