GPs, psychiatrists, psychologists and other specialists often use the 'Leiden Impotence Screening Test (LIST). This test can determine if your erection problems mental or physical cause. The LIST test consists of 11 questions, which you yourself can answer. For each question choose the answer that best fits your personal situation.
LIST questionnaire:
1. Erectile dysfunction is more rapid or gradual onset?
| During weeks | 1 point |
| During months | 0 points |
2. How often have you during the past six years had morning erections?
| Never | 0 points |
| Once a month or less | 1 point |
| More than once a month | 2 points |
4. Think you have erectile dysfunction may have something to do with mental health problems or concerns?
| 50% or less | 0 points |
| More than 50% | 1 point |
5. Did you during the past six years less interest in sex than in the period before the emergence of erectile dysfunction?
| No | 0 points |
| Yes | 1 point |
6.Vind you that your penis has become smaller since the start of erectile dysfunction?
| No | 0 points |
| Yes | 1 point |
7. Does your erectile dysfunction sometimes led to tensions between you and your partner? (Continue with question 9 if you do not have a permanent partner)
| No | 0 points |
| Yes | 1 point |
8. Since you have erectile dysfunction often thought to split up or divorced?
| No | 0 points |
| Yes | 1 point |
9. Are you in the latest attempts at intercourse orgasms ever too early? (Fill in only if you during the last six years have intercourse or tried to have)
| No | 0 points |
| Yes | 1 point |
10. How often did you have for the development of erectile dysfunction in general intercourse? (Fill in only if you arrive before the emergence of erectile dysfunction had intercourse)
| Once a month or less | 1 point |
| More than once a month | 0 points |
11. How rigid the penis at its highest in recent times have you masturbated? (Fill in only if you during the last six years masturbation done or tried to do)
| 50% or less | 0 points |
| More than 50% | 1 point |
If you have answered all the questions?
Count the points of your answers together. If more than 5 points on your convenience there is a strong indication of a predominantly psychological cause of your erection problems. Come on no more than 4 points, then there is a strong indication for a physical cause of erectile problems. Often your doctor will also ask these questions in an initial conversation about your erection problems. Based on the results of the questionnaire can be advised about the most appropriate treatment.
