[Psychological test studies of symptoms in patients with chronic prostatitis and prostadynia]

A total of 123 men with the symptoms of chronic prostatitis, who had been classified as suffering from either prostatitis or prostatodynia on the basis of infection diagnosis, were asked to complete two psychological test forms: the Giessen Symptom Check List (GSCL) and a prostatitis questionnaire. The most striking result was that in the GSCL both groups, in comparison with the test standardization sample, showed a relatively high degree of symptoms (subjective discomfort), particularly in the scales "Tendency to Fatigue" and "Pain in Limbs." The symptoms in the prostatitis questionnaire could be grouped into 4 scales, whereby the main finding was that the patients with prostatitis complained of greater discomfort on the scale "Vegetative Genital Complaints" than those with prostatodynia.