title: [Study on the social factors of patients with genital herpes relapsing].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the social factors of patients with genital herpes (GH) relapsing and guide GH patients to avoid the related social factors.
  
  
  METHODS
  To select 96 case of patients with recurrent genital herpes of final diagnosis and detailedly record the related social factors before relapsing. The social factors were compared between male and female GH patients, and compared between frequently recurrent (> 6/year) and non-frequently recurrent GH patients (< or = 6/year) too.
  
  
  RESULTS
  65.6% (63/96) of recurrent GH patients have certain social factors before relapsing. The main social factors are overtiredness, mental stress and excessive sexual contact. Staying up late and excessive drinking are common social factors, too. There was no significant difference of social factors between male and female GH patients (P >. 05), and also no significant difference between frequently recurrent and non-frequently recurrent GH patients (P > 0.05), too.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Overtiredness, mental stress and excessive sexual are the main social elements during inducing genital herpes relapsing. It is important to reduce GH relapsing and spreading of HIV and syphilis by guiding recurrent genital herpes patients to avoid related social elements.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Third Hospital of Hangzhou, Hangzhou, Zhejing 310009, China. liupfk@yahoo.com.cn
authors.forename: Ji-Feng
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Ai-E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Yong-Wei
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Di-Min
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005221:Fatigue / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006558:Herpes Genitalis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012008:Recurrence; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology