OBJECTIVE:To study the predictors of depression in patients with chronic prostatitis (CP).
METHODS:We enlisted 49 CP patients in this study, and evaluated their clinical symptoms with NIH-CPSI and IIEF-5, their depression symptoms with the Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS) and Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90), their trait-oriented coping styles with the Trait-Oriented Coping Styles Questionnaire (TCSQ), and their illness perceptions with the Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R). We conducted Pearson correlation analysis on the correlation of depression with the clinical symptoms of the patients and used multivariate Logistic regression models to analyze the predictors of their depression.
RESULTS:Pain or discomfort, urination symptoms, impact of symptoms and total score in NIH showed a significant positive correlation with depression symptoms, but a negative correlation with erectile function (r = 0.32, 0.31, 0.35, 0.38, and -0.36, P< 0.05). Besides, 43.4% of the depression symptoms in the CP patients could be explained by negative trait-oriented coping and disease impact factors (R2 = 0.434, adjusted R2 = 0.456, F = 14.853, P< 0.001).
CONCLUSION: Depression symptoms are closely associated with clinical symptoms, and negative trait-oriented coping and disease impact factors are the main predictors of depression in CP patients.
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Jiang S, Zhu CY, Ma J, Tao R. Are you the author?
Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui 230022, China.
Reference: Zhonghua Nan Ke Xue. 2012 Mar;18(3):212-5.
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 22474984
Article in Chinese.
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