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Abstract Urinary incontinence is the involuntary or uncontrolled loss of urine from the bladder. Stress incontinence is the most common types of urinary incontinence women, especially older women. The aims of the study; to evaluate the interventional study for controlling of stress urinary incontinence among elderly women; Research design Quasi- Experimental design was utilized in this study. Setting; the geriatric social club at Zagazig City. Sample; a purposive sample composed of 80 elderly women complain from stress urinary incontinence, they divided into two equal groups randomly (40 as study group & 40 as control group). Tools used in the present study were; an interview questionnaire sheet which composed of five parts The first part entails data about socio-demographic characteristics of the elderly women, the second part composed of questions to collect data about medical, obstetric, and problem of urinary incontinence history, the third part covered the women’s knowledge about urinary Incontinence problem, the fourth part covered daily living activities and, level of independence. and the fifth part deal with the psychological impact of urinary incontinence on the elderly women, and voiding training record Especially designed for elderly w.omen the record starts at 7 AM and is completed at 7PM for seven days. Results; of the current study revealed that more than half of elderly women with stress urinary incontinence aged 65 years, from urban area, and working, with a statistically significant difference was found between both groups (p- value= 0.001). More than half of the studied group reported that there were improvement, and nearly all of control group reported no improvement after the intervention of the health program. Conclusion; the health education, and training program improve stress urinary incontinence knowledge among the study group, and more than half of them reported their condition improved post health education intervention. The study recommended that; provide geriatric, social club, clinic with necessary education media about urinary incontinence, and implement practice session for kegel exercise. |