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Table 1 Description of cross-cultural adaptations for the National Institutes of Health Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index

From: A systematic review of cross-cultural adaptation of the National Institutes of Health Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index

Language-population

Year

Sample size

Sample size calculation

Consecutive or not

Time interval of test–retest reliability

Original-American [7, 9,10,11]

1999/2003/2006

261 CPPS/151 CP, 149 BPH, 134 healthy controls/ 174 CP/CPPS/a randomly selected cohort of white men 47 to 90 years old

No/No/No/No

No/No/No/No

1 month/ 6 weeks

Original-Australian [12]

2009

Australian men aged 16–64 years

No

No

NA

Original-Malaysian [13]

2006

47 CP/CPPS, 20 BPH, 13 healthy controls

No

No

NA

Original-Spanish [14]

2001

37 CP

No

No

NA

Arabic-Egyptian [22]

2006

30 CPPS, 48 healthy controls

No

Yes

1 week

Chinese-Mainland [23]

2010

162 CP, 97 healthy controls

No

Yes

4–6 h

Chinese-Malaysian [13]

2006

32 CP/CPPS, 43 BPH, 72 healthy controls

No

No

Short-term test–retest was evaluated 1 week later, long-term 14 weeks later

Danish [24]

2019

112 CP/CPPS

No

No

Four days

Estonian [25]

2006

64 CP/CPPS, 73 controls without CP/CPPS

No

No

NA

Finnish [26]

2003

155 CPPS, 12 controls had no previous urological history

No

Yes

 < 1 week later

French-Canadian [27]

2005

36 CP/CPPS, 38 controls presented for pre-vasectomy consultation

No

Yes

14 days

German (1,2) [28, 29]

2001, 2004

137 patients with CP/CPPS NIH type III

No

Yes

NA

Italian [30]

2005

42 CPPS, 81 healthy controls

No

No

1 week later

Japanese (a) [31]

2002

34 patients with CP/CPPS NIH type III, 35 BPH, 18 controls

No

No

NA

Japanese (b) [32]

2002

103 CP, 60 BPH, 87 healthy controls

No

No

2 weeks

Malaysian [13]

2006

21 CP/CPPS, 8 BPH, 12 healthy controls

No

No

Short-term test–retest was evaluated 1 week later, long-term 14 weeks later

Persian [33]

2020

42 CP/CPPS, 38 healthy controls

No

Yes

1 week

Portuguese-Brazilian [34]

2013

30 CPPS

No

Yes

1 h

Spanish [14]

2001

37 CP

No

Yes

NA

Turkish [35]

2020

116 CP/CPPS, 88 healthy controls

No

No

2 weeks

  1. CP, chronic prostatitis; CPPS, chronic pelvic pain; BPH, benign prostatic hyperplasia; NA = not available; German (1,2), two German publications with the same adaptation; Japanese (a) and Japanese (b), two different Japanese adaptations