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Abstract
Urinary Incontinence (UI) is described as the complaint of involuntary loss of urine by the International Continence Society. UI is called as a silent epidemic which is not a life threatening condition, but a worldwide problem at the same time.
In a recent review, the median prevalence of female urinary incontinence was determined to be 27.6% in different non institutional populations .the Prevalence of UI in Egypt was reported in 2007 as 54.8% in a study sample drown from women, aged twenty years and above in Assiut with following proportions: Urge UI was 15%, stress UI was 14.8% and Mixed UI was 25%.Much debate occurs regarding the risk factors for incontinence, particularly concerning the role that pregnancy and childbirth have to play with female incontinence. Predisposing factors include age and gender, which are not modifiable. Major inciting factors for urinary incontinence include damage to the pelvic floor due to childbirth, promoting factors include obesity, smoking and the menopause, and intervening factors include drug therapies and surgery.
Chronic diseases [diabetes mellitus, congestive cardiac failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), sleep apnea], neurologic diseases [stroke, Parkinson, normal pressured hydrocephalus, Alzheimer] drugs used and difficulties in reaching to WC should be taken into consideration for UI etiology.
UI has several effects on the health related quality of life (HRQOL) of patients, including its social, psychological, physical, and emotional consequences; as well as its economic toil. Patients with UI report feelings of embarrassment and stigmatization, interference with daily activities, and psychological distress.
Patients and Methods
The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence, risk factors of urinary incontinence and was to assess impact of urinary incontinence on quality of life of women.
This is a Cross sectional analytic study to determine the prevalence, risk factors of urinary incontinence and to assess impact of urinary incontinence on quality of life of women.
The study was carried out at the five primary health care units at Ismailia city, on 304 female patients attending the units for medical consultation of various causes.
Target population: All female patients 20 years old and above, attended the five primary health care units at Ismailia city at time of the study.
An interview questionnaire was used to collect the necessary data. The questionnaire is comprised of four parts:
The first part designed to investigate women’s demographic characteristics, the second part designed to investigate risk factors for urinary incontinence, the third part designed to diagnose UI and its subtypes and the forth part is designed to investigate the impact of urinary incontinence on quality of life.
Results
The mean age of the study population was 36.58 ±12.20. The married constituted (87%); the uneducated were (23.4%) and the house wives constituted the majority (88.2%).
48% of the women reported leaking urine. Among those women who reported any leaking, 57% reported mild leak, 38% reported moderate leak; and 5% reported severe leak. The prevalence of urge, stress, and mixed incontinence, mutually exclusive of each other, is 19%, 12%, and 17%, respectively.