Table 3.
Health-care utilization, self-management strategies, and bother1 by flare status and duration among 64 participants with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome and/or chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome, Washington University School of Medicine and the University of Alabama at Birmingham 2010-2013
| Non-Flare (n=64) | Flare duration | p-value2 | p-value3 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Minutes-long (n=26) | Hours-long (n=24) | One day-long (n=16) | Multiple days-long (n=51) | ||||
| Health-care utilization and self-management strategies (%): | |||||||
| Contact or see a health-care provider | 15.6 | 3.7 | 7.3 | 15.2 | 33.6*** | 0.001 | <0.0001 |
| Medication change or increase | 17.2 | 10.2 | 9.0 | 17.6 | 22.9 | 0.48 | 0.024 |
| Rest | ----- | 52.1 | 60.2 | 73.1 | 63.3 | ----- | 0.28 |
| Other activities4 | ----- | 18.8 | 17.2 | 9.4 | 31.2 | ----- | 0.13 |
| Bother: | |||||||
| Keep you from doing usual things during flares (%): | |||||||
| None | 46.9 | 20.4 | 13.3 | 18.6 | 10.5 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 |
| Only a little | 23.4 | 32.2 | 16.8 | 12.5 | 7.8 | ||
| Some | 23.4 | 34.5 | 55.4 | 37.0 | 31.9 | ||
| A lot | 6.2 | 10.2*** | 16.6**** | 32.9**** | 51.5**** | ||
| Think about symptoms during flares (%): | |||||||
| None | 7.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | <0.0001 | 0.0013 |
| Only a little | 34.4 | 14.0 | 9.5 | 12.8 | 2.6 | ||
| Some | 32.8 | 35.3 | 45.6 | 43.6 | 23.3 | ||
| A lot | 25.0 | 52.0**** | 45.1**** | 46.1*** | 74.6**** | ||
| Bothered in general by flares (%): | |||||||
| None | ----- | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ----- | <0.0001 |
| Only a little | ----- | 13.2 | 10.6 | 17.0 | 9.8 | ||
| Some | ----- | 49.6 | 45.6 | 33.0 | 17.9 | ||
| A lot | ----- | 31.4 | 47.4 | 49.7 | 76.0 | ||
P-values for comparisons to non-flare levels:
0.05≤p<0.1;
0.01≤p<0.05;
0.001≤p<0.01;
p<0.001.
Means and percentages were calculated by generalized linear mixed models. P-values were calculated by generalized linear mixed models or conditional logistic regression, as appropriate.
Comparing all flare to non-flare values.
Assessing the linear trend in symptom severity by duration of flares.
Includes taking medications, pain pills, more medication, aloe vera/Elmiron, Tylenol/Urised, Vicodin, pain killers, Tylenol/Ibuprofen, Valium, antibiotics, numbing medications, and muscle relaxants; relaxing/resting and trying to rest; taking a bath/hot bath with/without baking soda, drinking warm water with baking soda, drinking more fluid, watching their diet, avoiding problem foods/beverages, lying down, relaxing, using a heating pad, icing the painful area, massaging the lower tip of their penis, and praying.