Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3858544 | The Journal of Urology | 2016 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Exploratory factor analyses suggested that the 2 factors pain severity and urinary severity provided the best psychometric description of items in GUPI, ICSI and ICPI. These factors were used to create 2 symptom indexes for pain and urinary symptoms. Pain, but not urinary symptoms, was associated with symptoms of depression on multiple regression analysis, suggesting that these symptoms may impact patients with urological chronic pelvic pain syndromes differently (B ± SE for pain severity = 0.24 ± 0.04, 95% CI 0.16-0.32, β = 0.32, p <0.001). Our results suggest that pain and urinary symptoms should be assessed separately rather than combined into 1 total score. Total scores that combine the separate factors of pain and urinary symptoms into 1 score may be limited for clinical and research purposes.
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Authors
James W. Griffith, Alisa J. Stephens-Shields, Xiaoling Hou, Bruce D. Naliboff, Michel Pontari, Todd C. Edwards, David A. Williams, J. Quentin Clemens, Niloofar Afari, Frank Tu, R. Brett Lloyd, Donald L. Patrick, Chris Mullins, John W. Kusek,