Temporal Relationships between Pain, Mood and Urinary Symptoms in Urological Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome: A MAPP Network Study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We sought to determine the time-lagged, bidirectional relationships among clinical variables of pelvic pain, urinary symptoms, negative mood, nonpelvic pain and quality of life in men and women with urological chronic pelvic pain syndrome, incorporating interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome and chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome.

Materials and methods

A total of 204 female and 166 male patients were assessed up to 24 times over a 48-week period on the 5 primary outcomes. A lagged autoregressive analysis was applied to determine the directional relationship of one variable to another 2 weeks later, beyond that of the concurrent relationships at each time point and autocorrelations and trends over time.

Results

The results show clear evidence

SUBMITTER: Naliboff BD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9179931 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature