title: Chinese urologists' practice patterns of diagnosing and treating chronic pelvic pain syndrome: a questionnaire survey.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the application of the Chinese Urological Association (CUA) guidelines on prostatitis and the effects on the clinical practice patterns of diagnosing and treating chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS) among Chinese urologists.
  
  
  METHODS
  We conducted a questionnaire investigation of the CUA guidelines on prostatitis among the urologists from 399 hospitals in 63 cities of China, and performed statistical analyses on all the eligible questionnaires collected.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 2 251 questionnaires distributed, 2 046 (90.9%) were eligible, of which 92.5% were from the urologists in tertiary or secondary hospitals, of whom 72.3% had senior or intermediate professional titles, and 90.2% had studied the CUA guidelines. Most respondents agreed that Type III prostatitis was a clinical syndrome, of which the diagnosis should be made after other conditions with similar symptoms had been ruled out and the aim was to relieve pain, alleviate urination symptoms and improve quality of life. Those who had and those who had not studied the CUA guidelines differed in their viewpoints on CPPS as illustrated in the guidelines. In clinical practice, the most common treatment options for CPPS were pharmaceutical therapy (95.0%), life style adjustment (88.9%), and psychotherapy (79.9%), and the most frequently prescribed drugs were phytotherapy (84.5%), α-blockers (79.0%) and antibiotics (64.0%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  CUA guidelines on prostatitis has gained a nationwide application and promoted the standardization of the management of CPPS in China.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing 100034, China.
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing 100034, China.
authors.forename: Ben
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing 100034, China.
authors.forename: Yun-xiang
authors.initials: YX
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.affiliation: Department of Andrology, Nanjing General Hospital of Nanjing Military Command, Nanjing 210002, China.
authors.forename: Xue-jun
authors.initials: XJ
authors.lastname: Shang
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing 100044, China.
authors.forename: Wen-jun
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Bai
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing 100044, China.
authors.forename: Xiao-feng
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China.
authors.forename: Ji-hong
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, First Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
authors.forename: Chun-hua
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Deng
mesh_terms: D044466:Asian People; D002681:China; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017699:Pelvic Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011472:Prostatitis / Q000503:physiopathology; D011788:Quality of Life; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires