Psychology and Urology professor Dean Tripp led a study
investigating chronic prostatitis in adolescent boys. April 16,
2009 A Queen's University research team has found that a painful
pelvic affliction associated with adult men occurs as frequently
in adolescent boys. Chronic prostatitis or chronic pelvic pain
syndrome (CP/CPPS) is a urogenital disease associated with
persistent and life-altering pelvic and genital pain. This is
the first study to estimate the prevalence of CP-like symptoms
in adolescent males, and to show the negative impact that pain,
urinary symptoms, and depression have on boys' quality of life.
"Boys are suffering in a medical silence, where physicians and
even specialists remain unaware of the occurrence and strong
negative developmental impact of these disease symptoms," says
lead researcher Dean Tripp, professor of Psychology and Urology
at Queen's. "These terrible symptoms of pain are interfering
with the developmental trajectory of adolescent boys. Social
relationships and academic