Sexual abuse of children and adolescents has become an increasingly publicized phenomenon. Psychiatrists and other mental health professionals are often called upon to evaluate and treat children and adolescents who may have been sexually abused, to provide counseling or treatment to the families of such children, and to provide reports and testimony for proceedings about such cases in the chil...

Studies examining the quality of life of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) patients have consistently demonstrated that ICD patient quality of life is at least equal to, if not better than, that of patients treated with medications alone.1 Quality of life may be related in part to the patient’s ability to resume “pre-ICD” activities; however, sexual activity is rarely included as par...

Objective: To identify directed teachings to the adult’s sexual health, who suffer from cardiac disease. Methodology: It was performed a systematic review of literature, through research made on MEDLINE data base, and Complementary Index, based studies published between January 2015 October 2020. is intended answer question: Which should be included health disease? Results/Discussion: Previousl...

Objective: To evaluate the need for sexual counseling among patients with heart disease Materials and Methods: Data were collected from 363 attending a cardiac rehabilitation outpatient clinic. Participants completed questionnaire independently. Results: The participants consisted of 241 males (66.4%) 122 females (33.6%) mean age 57.69±14.50 years. Among them, 248 (68.3%) married. Most (91.2%) ...