PubMed ID:
11586227
Public Release Type:
Journal
Publication Year: 2001
Affiliation: General Medicine Unit, Medical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.
Authors:
Adler A,
Calhoun EA,
Chang CH,
Chronic Prostatitis Collaborative Research Network,
Collins MM,
Eremenco S,
Litwin MS,
Odom L,
O'Leary MP,
Pontari MA
Studies:
Chronic Prostatitis Collaborative Research Network
The prominence of health related quality of life end points in international clinical research underscores the importance of well validated and translated measures to enable cross-cultural comparison. The National Institutes of Health (NIH)-Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (CPSI) assesses symptoms and health related quality of life in men with chronic nonbacterial, NIH type III prostatitis. To expand its use to Spanish speaking patients we performed a translation and linguistic validation.