assessment the correlations of erectile dysfunction with depression in patients with chronic hepatitis

background: erectile dysfunction (ed) is recognized as a major health problem .chronic diseases such as chronic hepatitis, and its treatment can have negative effect on erectile function. the aim of this study was assessment the correlations of erectile dysfunction with depression in patients with chronic hepatitis methods: in this descriptive and analytical study, 70 male patients with chronic hepatitis evaluated by iief standard questionnaire for assessing sexual dysfunction. also the beck depression scale used for assessing the depression level.  data were analyzed by using of spss 16 software.   findings: the mean of patients age was 45.56 year; the mean of chronic hepatitis infection duration was 6.81 year; 46 (65.7%) and 24 (34.3%)  patients were hbv and hcv  recpectivly.  in the most of  the patients (74.3%) ed was observed  moderate and severity of depression in the most of the patient (40%) was mild. depression levels could not still significantly predict the ed (p=0.449) and between biological variables and ed didn’t found significantly correlations . conclusion: our results indicate that there is no significantly correlations between ed, depression level and demographic .