Voiding symptoms in chronic pelvic pain (CPP).

Objective: To establish the prevalence of voiding symptoms in CPP patients.

Study Design: Sixty women with chronic pelvic pain (CPP), aged 23-79 (mean: 48) years completed a questionnaire mainly addressing lower abdominal pain and voiding symptoms. Symptoms occurring often, almost always, or always for more than 6 months were considered present and serious.

Questionnaire as diagnostic tool in chronic pelvic pain (CPP): a pilot study.

Objectives: No standard screening instrument is available enabling physicians to assign the diagnosis chronic pelvic pain (CPP) to women with lower abdominal pain. Therefore, our aim was to evaluate an easy-to-use questionnaire, which can be applied as a validated primary screening test for diagnosing CPP.

Study Design: From the general female population, 577 women completed a questionnaire addressing chronic symptoms in the pelvic region.