The psychometric properties of the PRAFAB‐questionnaire: A brief assessment questionnaire to evaluate severity of urinary incontinence in women

Abstract

The brief and simple PRAFAB-questionnaire demonstrated good psychometric properties for use in clinical practice and research to evaluate treatment effects for UI in women. Future research will be necessary to replicate these findings and further explore its psychometric properties.

Prognostic indicators of poor short‐term outcome of physiotherapy intervention in women with stress urinary incontinence

“…Hardly any of the patients classified as ''recovered'' were using pads, illustrating their confidence and ability to control their continence. 35 We consider both outcome measures to be relevant when providing caregivers and patients with information on the potential prognostic indicators associated with poor recovery, to allow informed decisions.…”

“…34,35 If they reported more urgency than stress UI episodes, they were classified as having predominantly urgency UI 34,35 and therefore excluded from this cohort. Urgency UI was defined as the involuntary loss of urine accompanied by or immediately preceded by urgency.…”

“…37 The PRAFAB-Q has excellent test-retest reliability, good construct validity, and excellent responsiveness to change in women with stress or predominantly stress UI. 35,38 A maximum of 4 points (min-max ¼ 1-4) can be given per item. For this prognostic study we were only interested in the LS scale.…”

“…A higher total score indicates more severe condition. 35,39 Recovery on the binary LS scale was defined as 4 points, which is almost the best attainable score for the items of frequency, amount, and protection.…”

“…Patients were classified into nine groups: (1) very much better, (2) much better, (3) moderately better, (4) slightly better, (5) unchanged, (6) slightly worse, (7) moderately worse, (8) much worse, and Neurourology and Urodynamics DOI 10.1002/nau (9) very much worse. 35 The GPE score was dichotomized into the binary GPE score with the categories ''moderately to very much better'' considered as recovered.…”