[Clinical questionnaires about benign prostatic hyperplasia].
OBJECTIVE
s To assess the understanding degree of urologists for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and the clinical characteristics of BPH patients.


METHODS
The questionnaires was distributed to urologists and patients in 119 hospitals over the country, respectively. The urologist survey was mainly focused on the questions of BPH progression and therapeutic model. The patient survey was mainly focused on the questions of patient's age, symptom features and the preference to receiving treatment.


RESULTS
The evaluations based on 289 completed urologist questionnaires and 4253 completed patient questionnaires showed that 98.6% of urologists agreed that BPH was a progressive disease but there were still some differences in understanding the risk factors for BPH progression. Additionally, 98.1% of patients were diagnosed to be moderate or severe BPH, nocturia was the most frequent symptom. In the treatment for BPH, both the urologists and patients concerned about how to improve the system rapidly.


CONCLUSIONS
This study is the first questionnaires specifically to the urologists and BPH patients, the results would reflect the situations of BPH diagnosis and treatment in China and would be helpful to the development of BPH guideline.
Zhang
Xiang-hua
XH
Department of Urology, the First Hospital, Institute of Urology, Peking University, Beijing 100034, China. urozhang@sina.com
Li
Xin
X
Ye
Zhang-qun
ZQ
Sun
Ze-yu
ZY
Sun
Ying-hao
YH
Sun
Guang
G
Wang
Jian-ye
JY
Na
Yan-qun
YQ
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010361:Patients; D010820:Physicians; D011470:Prostatic Hyperplasia; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires