Psychological morbidity and female urinary incontinence

Urinary incontinence among women registered with a family health center in the Southeastern Anatolia Region and the factors affecting its prevalence

“…UI is defined by the International Continence Society (ICS) as an involuntary loss of urine (1). The prevalence of UI is reported to vary by 15%-52% in the world and more than 200 million people suffer from the problem (2)(3)(4). Studies conducted in Turkey report the prevalence of UI among women aged between 15 and 70 and above as ranging between 20.5% and 68.8% (5)(6)(7)(8).…”

The Analysis of the Effect of the Education Given to the Women Diagnosed as Stress Urinary Incontinence

“…10,11 İnkontinanslı kadınların büyük çoğunluğunun şikâyetlerinden ötürü rahatsız olduğu, bu nedenle sosyal ve fiziksel aktivitelerini hatta sıvı alımını bile kısıtladığı saptanmıştır. 12,13 Lam ve ark.nın çalışmasında, kadınların kendilerini arkadaş ziyareti etmek, spor yapmak, alışveriş yapmak, işe gitmek gibi birçok sosyal aktiviteden uzak tutmak zorunda olduğu belirtilmiştir.…”

Prevalence and Risk Factors of Urinary Incontinence and its Impact on the Quality of Life and Treatment Seeking Behavior among Malaysian Women: A Review

“…The perception that it is "normal" for women to have incontinence [41,63,81] and that the condition is perceived by the public as more of a women's health problem than men's needs to be explored particularly among Malaysian women as it could influence the approach to its prevention and management. Another common view shared by both public and health workers is that UI is associated with ageing, which may prevent its early recognition and therefore its early management or may prevent many younger women with UI from seeking help [52,82] It has been reported that female UI, urgency and frequency significantly impair the QOL of both young and older women and also has negative effect on the partner's relationship [2,83]. The impact of UI on a woman's own emotional health is increasingly apparent.…”

“…When patients complain about their urinary symptoms as "bothersome or troublesome" then it can be considered to be a hygienic and/or social problem [1]. Some have dubbed this as "the silent epidemic" because adults, particularly women, are reluctant to talk about their own personal, social and hygienic problem or seek treatment for it [2]. While UI has been well documented in the developed countries, the world-wide prevalence data is difficult to summarize and impossible to generalize to the general population in a given area because of the large variations in the reported levels of its prevalence [3].…”