Table 1.
Mean (SD) summary statistics of the NIH-CPSI score in 10 patients.
| NIH-CPSI | Baseline 0 | wk 3 |
P values 3 wk vs. 0 |
wk 6 |
P values 6 wk vs. 0 |
wk 12 |
P values 12 wk vs. 0 |
| Total score | 25.1 (6.6) | 17.6 (5.7) | 0.006* | 8.8 (6.2) | 0.006* | 6.6 (4.3) | 0.006* |
| Pain scores | 9.9 (3.1) | 5.3 (4.2) | 0.004* | 3.1 (2.0) | 0.002* | 2.1 (2.0) | 0.002* |
| Urinary score | 5.7 (3.3) | 5.6 (2.5) | 0.984 | 1.7 (2.5) | 0.004* | 1.6 (1.2) | 0.008* |
| QOL score | 9.5 (2.0) | 6.7 (2.7) | 0.004* | 4.1 *2.6) | 0.002* | 2.9 (2.0) | 0.002* |
| Symptom score = Pain + Urinary | 15.6 (5.2) | 10.9 (4.1) | 0.002* | 4.8 (4.0) | 0.002* | 3.7 (2.9) | 0.002* |
CPSI: National institutes of health – chronic prostatitis symptom index
* significant: exact Wilcoxon Signed Test P-values