AIMTo identify the sexual, emotional and psychological status of men who augmented their penis with mineral oil injection for their small penis.

METHODSMen who had penile paraffin were asked to answer the semi-structured questionnaire. The questionnaire was designed to assess the motivation, method of penile injection, changes in erectile function and satisfaction after penile injection. SCL (Symptom checklist)-90-R, STAI (State and Trait Anxiety Inventory) and Zung SDS (Self-rating depression scale) were also included in the questionnaire for psychological evaluation.

RESULTSA total of 357 men completed the questionnaire. The first-ranked motivation of the injection was recommendation by their acquaintances (48.9 %). The majority of the respondents had the procedure by non-medical person (78.0 %). Before injection, 17.2 % had a sense of inferiority in their penis and 32 % worried about their weak erectile function. After injection, 33.0 % have found relief from their sense of inferiority and 17.8 % wish to feel improvement in their erectile function. Most of the respondents (91 %) were not satisfied with their penis and 74 % of them replied that they want to remove the injected material. Only 15.6 % did not experience side effects. Most of the subjects have suffered from various side effects such as inflammation, skin necrosis, pain, etc. No evidence of psychiatric pathology was found in psychological evaluation.

CONCLUSIONThe motivations of mineral oil injection were recommendation by their acquaintances or desire to be more mannish. Most of them had suffered from various side effects and only a small number of them felt improvement in their sense of inferiority, in their penis and erectile function. Increased public awareness is needed for the prevention of this physically and psychologically debilitating problem.

Adult ; Emotions ; Humans ; Injections ; Male ; Mineral Oil ; administration & dosage ; Penile Erection ; psychology ; Penile Implantation ; psychology ; Penis ; Prisoners ; psychology ; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales ; Sexual Behavior ; Surveys and Questionnaires

OBJECTIVE: Explore the affecting factors of mentally prisoner's competency to serve a sentence (CSS), establish the base of quantitative study of CSS. METHODS: Firstly, the researchers compile a questionnaire named legal-psycho ability of competency to serve a sentence questionnaire, then the researchers scaling the object with RTHD, and ask all object complete the questionnaire. there a hypothesis, that the object who are cured in cured ward is incompetent to serve a sentence (ISS), and the other who are stay in rehabilitated ward is competent to serve a sentence (CSS). RESULTS: There are 185 object admitted the study, the ISS group the CSS group have significance between psychiatric and legal aspects. CONCLUSION At the influence of psychiatric symptoms, the mentally prisoner's competency to serve a sentence had been impaired, and they should been transferred from prison to hospital.
Adult ; Expert Testimony/standards* ; Female ; Forensic Psychiatry ; Humans ; Male ; Mental Competency ; Mental Disorders/psychology* ; Mentally Ill Persons/psychology* ; Middle Aged ; Prisoners/psychology* ; Surveys and Questionnaires

OBJECTIVE: To create an instrument to determine the mental prisoners' competency to serve a sentence, which is according with the Chinese legal system. METHODS: Integrating the Chinese criminal jurisprudence and the authors' forensic psychiatric experience, the research team created an instrument which called Competency to serve a sentence Rating scale firstly, then used the instrument retrospectively, in the end the validity and reliability of the instrument were inspected and, through an diagnostic test, the feasibility of the instrument was evaluated. RESULTS: Homogeneity reliability of the instrument is 0.8779, the correspondence of the conclusion between the instrument and the expertise is 0.909, except the positive likelihood ratio is 0.0683, the other diagnostic index are better. CONCLUSION The Competency to serve a sentence Rating Scale is feasible.
Adult ; Expert Testimony ; Female ; Forensic Psychiatry ; Humans ; Male ; Mental Competency ; Mental Disorders/psychology* ; Mentally Ill Persons/psychology* ; Prisoners/psychology* ; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales ; Retrospective Studies ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Young Adult

OBJECTIVE: To study the effect of expanding training on the mental health of the prisoners and to provide the references to the innovation of the mental health education for the prisoners. METHODS: Questionnaire, observation, interview and mathematical statistic analysis were used. 100 male and 100 female prisoners from two prisons in East China were investigated by Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90). RESULTS: Eight of the ten factors in SCL-90 showed the level of statistically significance, which includes obsessive-compulsive symptoms, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, compulsion, hostility, psychoticism and others. Expanding training could be helpful to improve the mental health of the prisoners. CONCLUSION Expanding training can be used in mental health education of the prisoners.
Adolescent ; Adult ; Anxiety/therapy* ; Emotions ; Exercise Therapy/methods* ; Female ; Health Education/methods* ; Humans ; Interpersonal Relations ; Male ; Mental Disorders/therapy* ; Mental Health ; Middle Aged ; Prisoners/psychology* ; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Young Adult