A short term goal would be to abstain from sex or masturbation for a health reason: waiting for a UTI, STD or other issue (from a procedure, perhaps) until healing comes.
A long term goal would be waiting for marriage to have sex and then committing to only have sex with that person.
Because the patient may be extremely sick and they don’t want to pay for a lot of it.
Another reason is the patient may have a history of substance abuse
Time stress
anticipatory stress
situational stress
encounter stress
