Reliability and validity of the National Institutes of Health: Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index in a Malaysian population.

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The objective of the study is to determine the short- and long-term utility of the Chinese, Malay and English versions of the National Institutes of Health--Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (NIH-CPSI) in our ethnically diverse population. The NIH-CPSI was translated into Chinese and Malay, and then verified by back translation into English. Subjects included 100 new chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain (CP/CPPS) patients, 71 new benign prostatic hyperplasia patients and 97 healthy individ...

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Authors: Cheah, P; Liong, M; Yuen, K; Lee, S; Yang, JR

• Journal: World journal of urology
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 79-87
• Publication date: 2006-02-01
• DOI: 10.1007/s00345-005-0037-z
• EISSN: 1433-8726
• ISSN: 0724-4983
• Language: English
• Keywords: Humans; Chronic Disease; ROC Curve; Middle Aged; Adult; Sensitivity and Specificity; United States; European Continental Ancestry Group; Prostatic Hyperplasia; Asian Continental Ancestry Group; Reference Values; Probability; Health Status Indicators; Pelvic Pain; National Institutes of Health (U.S.); Male; Syndrome; Reproducibility of Results; Prostatitis; Case-Control Studies