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National Institute of Health Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (NIH-CPSI)

 

Author(s)

Litwin Mark S, MD, MPH; The Chronic Prostatitis Collaborative Research Network

 

Purpose

  • Pathology:

Male genital diseases

  • Disease:

Chronic prostatitis

  • Objective:

To assess symptoms and quality of life in men with chronic abacterial prostatitis

  • Population for intended use:

Male

 
 

Characteristics

  • Type of instrument:

Health-Related Quality of Life - HRQL (incl. health status)

  • Administration mode:

Self-administered

  • Number of items:

13

  • Recall/Observation period:

Past 7 days

 
 

Language(s)

  • Original language:

English for the USA

  • List of existing translations:

The translations listed below may not have undergone a full linguistic validation process and may require further work to be suitable for use in a study.
This list of translations is subject to constant changes, therefore please check the status of translations with MAPI Research Trust / the developers / copyright holders / distributors.

NIH-CPSI

Arabic Finnish for Finland Polish for Poland* Spanish for Puerto Rico*
Cantonese for Hong Kong* French for Canada* Portuguese for Brazil* Spanish for Spain*
Chinese for the USA German for Germany* Portuguese for Portugal* Spanish for the USA*
English for Australia* German for Switzerland* Russian for Russia* Swedish for Sweden*
English for New Zealand* Hungarian* Russian for Ukraine Ukrainian*
English for South Africa* Italian for Italy* Spanish for Argentina*
English for the UK* Japanese for Japan* Spanish for Chile*
Estonian* Mandarin for China* Spanish for Colombia*

* Performed by the MAPI Institute

 

Bibliographic reference(s) of the original questionnaire

Nickel JC, Downey JA, Nickel KR, Clark JM. Prostatitis-like symptoms: one year later. BJU Int. 2002 Nov;90(7):678-681 (online abstract)

Ku JH et al. The prevalence of chronic prostatitis-like symptoms in young men: a community-based survey. Urol Res, 2001. 29(2): p. 108-12

McNaughton Collins M et al. Quality of life is impaired in men with chronic prostatitis: the Chronic Prostatitis Collaborative Research Network. J Gen Intern Med, 2001. 16(10): p. 656-62

Nickel JC et al. Prevalence of prostatitis-like symptoms in a population based study using the National Institutes of Health chronic prostatitis symptom index. J Urol, 2001. 165(3): p. 842-5

Nickel JC et al. Predictors of patient response to antibiotic therapy for the chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome: a prospective multicenter clinical trial. J Urol, 2001. 165(5): p. 1539-44

Litwin MS, McNaughton-Collins M, Fowler FJ Jr, Nickel JC, Calhoun EA, Pontari MA, Alexander RB, Farrar JT, O'Leary MP. The National Institutes of Health chronic prostatitis symptom index: development and validation of a new outcome measure. Chronic Prostatitis Collaborative Research Network. J Urol 1999; 162:369-75

Nickel JC, LM Nyberg and M Hennenfent. Research guidelines for chronic prostatitis: consensus report from the first National Institutes of Health International Prostatitis Collaborative Network. Urology, 1999. 54(2): p. 229-33

Last update: April 2012

Last update in collaboration with the author: May 2005