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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Urology. 2015 Jun;85(6):1319–1327. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2015.02.047

Table 1.

Psychosocial and Symptom Measures

MEASURE Description Range Abbreviation
Quality of Life
  GUPI QOL impact Urological symptoms
impact on daily life (1 week)
0-12 GUPI-Impact
  SF12 physical health
composite
Quality of life regarding
physical functioning (4
weeks)
0-100 SF12-PH
  SF12 mental health
composite
Quality of life regarding
mental functioning (4
weeks)
0-100 SF12-MH
  BPI pain interference Impact of pain on daily
activities (past week)
0-10 BPI-
Interference
  SEAR: Sexual Relationship Quality of sexual
relationships (4 weeks)
0-100 SEAR-Sex
  SEAR: Confidence Confidence in relationships
(4 weeks)
0-100 SEAR-Conf
  SEAR: Overall Score Overall relationship score (4
weeks)
0-100 SEAR-Total
  SEAR: Self_Esteem Self-esteem in relationships
(4 weeks)
0-100 SEAR-
Esteem
  SEAR: Overall Relationship Satisfaction with
relationships (4 weeks)
0-100 SEAR-
Relation
Mood
  SYM-Q: Mood Overall mood rating (2
weeks)
0-10 SYMQ-mood
  HADS-Anxiety Anxiety symptoms (2
weeks)
0-21 HADS-A
  HADS-Depression Depression symptoms (2
weeks)
0-21 HADS-D
  PANAS positive affect Degree of positive affect (1
week)
5-50 PANAS-Pos
  PANAS negative affect Degree of negative affect (1
week)
5-50 PANAS-Neg
Life stress
  CTES: prior to age 17 Severity of traumatic events
before age 17
0-84 CTES-Age17
  CTES: within last 3 years Severity of traumatic events
in last three years
0-84 CTES-3yrs
  Perceived stress scale Self-rated level of stress (1
month)
0-40 PSS
Coping Skills
  CSQ: Catastrophizing Pain Catastrophizing (no
time specified)
0-36 CSQ-Catas
  CSQ: ability to decrease pain Perceived ability to
decrease pain (no
time specified)
0-6 CSQ-
Decrease
  CSQ: ability to control pain Perceived ability to control
pain (no time specified)
0-6 CSQ-Control
  BPCQ: Internal Locus of Pain
Control
Self-efficacy for pain (no
time specified)
5-30 BPCQ-Int
  BPCQ: External locus -
Powerful Doctors
Importance of doctors in
pain control (no time
specified)
4-24 BQCQ-PD
  BPCQ: External locus –
Chance happenings
Importance of chance in
pain control (no time
specified)
4-24 BQCQ-
Chance
Personality Traits
  IPIP:Negative Emotionality
  (Neuroticism)
Emotional stability (as you
are now)
24-
120
IPIP-N
  IPIP:Extraversion Outgoingness, sociability
(as you are now)
24-
120
IPIP-E
  IPIP:Openness Intellectual curiosity (as you
are now)
24-
120
IPIP-O
  IPIP:Agreeableness Friendlness, compassion
(as you are now)
24-
120
IPIP-A
  IPIP:Conscientiousness Self-discipline (as you are
now)
24-
120
IPIP-C
Wide spread symptoms
  BPI pain severity sore Severity of pain (1 week) 0-10 BPI-severity
  BPI: Body map -total # of sites Number of painful body
sites (1 week)
0-45 BPI-sites
  CMSI: sum of symptoms for at
least 3 month in past year
Number of physical
symptoms persistent for at
least 3 months in past year
0-39 CMSI-yr
  CMSI: sum of symptoms for at
least 3 month in lifetime
Number of physical
symptoms persistent for at
least 3 months in lifetime
0-39 CMSI-lifetime
Cognitive Skills
  MASQ: Language Self-reported language
problems (no time
specified)
8-40 MASQ-
Langage
  MASQ:Visual Perceptual
Ability
Self-reported visual
problems (no time
specified)
6-30 MASQ-Visual
  MASQ: Verbal Memory Self-reported verbal
memory problems (no time
specified)
8-40 MASQ-
Verbal
  MASQ: Visual Spatial Memory Self-reported visual memory problems (no time specified) 8-40 MASQ-VS
  MASQ: Attention
Concentration
Self-reported concentration
problems (no time
specified)
8-40 MASQ-Attent