Prostatitis-like Symptoms: Prevalence and Impact on Quality of Life in Kenyan Youth Aged 16–19 Years
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study examined the prevalence of chronic prostatitis-like symptoms and quality of life (QoL) in community dwelling Kenyan youth aged 16–19 years (n = 166) using the National Institutes of Health Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (NIH-CPSI). Prostatitis symptom impact on QoL was examined using pain and urinary symptoms as well as depressive symptoms (Patient Health Questionnaire; PHQ) and demographic information. All participants were registered and attending secondary school during the time of survey. The mean age of the sample was 16.97 (SD = .88). Approximately 23.5% pubertal males reported having total pain domain scores of 4 or greater. Using a prostatitis-like symptom case identification the sample prevalence was 13.3% and 9% using a conservative estimate removing males endorsing pain or burning during urination as a potential indicator of STIs. Further, 5.4% of the sample reported moderate to severe prostatitis symptoms which was reduced to 2.4% when urination pain is removed. Multiple regression analysis showed that school district (β = .20), depressive symptoms (β = .18) and pain (β = .36) predicted poorer QoL and that urinary symptoms did not (β = .11). These findings are discussed in light of the current prevalence data, clinical implications and future research.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".