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COMPARISON OF CHRONIC TESTICULAR PAIN AND SCROTAL PAIN DUE TO VARICOCELE USING THE JAPANESE SHORT FORM McGill PAIN QUESTIONNAIRE (SF-MPQ)

2024· article· en· W7146292477 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueInstitutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicMale Reproductive Health Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMcGill Pain QuestionnaireVaricoceleScrotal PainRating scaleTesticular painComorbidity
DOInot available

Abstract

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Chronic testicular pain (CTP) is testicular pain that persists for more than 3 months, and the cause of the pain is often unknown, sometimes requiring differentiation from varicocele (VC). In this study, the shortform McGill pain questionnaire (SF-MPQ), which allows a detailed assessment of pain, was used to examine the clinical differences between CTP and scrotal pain due to VC. A retrospective study (IRB#: TeiRin21-036) was conducted on 7 7 patients who visited our clinic between 2018 and 2022 with the chief complaint of scrotal pain. Of the 77 patients, 19 were diagnosed with CTP and 58 patients with VC. All patients were evaluated for marital status, smoking, alcohol consumption, body mass index, and duration of pain. In addition, comorbidities were assessed using the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI). All patients were asked to complete the Numerical Rating Scale (NRS), Verbal Rating Scale (VRS), and SF-MPQ With respect to the patient background, the CTP group was significantly older than the VC group, had a higher percentage of married patients, and had higher CCI. Concerning pain assessment, the CTP group had significantly higher NRS and VRS than the VC group. In terms of pain sensation and character, the CTP group experienced significantly more throbbing, shooting, stabbing, sharp, burning, and tender pain than the VC group. Regarding, the emotional aspects of pain, they significantly felt the pain tiring- exhausting, sickening, fearful, and punishing-cruel. These results suggest that the SF-MPQ may be a useful questionnaire in the evaluation of CTP.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.009
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Meta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.643
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0090.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.081
GPT teacher head0.424
Teacher spread0.343 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it