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Living with urinary incontinence
— a longitudinal study of older women | | Author(s) | Julie Byles, Cynthia J Millar, David W Sibbritt |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 38, no 3, May 2009 |
| Pages | pp 333-338 |
| Source | http://www.ageing.oxfordjournals.org |
| Keywords | Older women ; Incontinence ; Health [elderly] ; Quality of life ; Longitudinal surveys ; Australia. |
| Annotation | Urinary incontinence in women is common. Its prevalence increases with age, and is also associated with increased body mass index (BMI), so might be modifiable. Participants were from the Australian Longitudinal Study of Women's Health (ALSWH) aged 70- 75 in 1996 and who have completed four health studies in the last 10 years. Continence status across the four surveys were defined according to women's reports of "leaking urine" at each survey. Over the study period, 14.6% of the women who had previously reported leaking urine "rarely" or "never" developed incontinence, and 27.2% of women participating in Survey 4 reported leaking urine "sometimes" or "often", with women being twice as likely to report incontinence at S4 than they were 6 years earlier. Longitudinal models demonstrated the association between incontinence and dementia, dissatisfaction with physical ability, falls to the ground, constipation, urinary tract infection, history of prolapse, and prolapse repair. Stroke, parity, and hysterectomy and number of visits to the general practitioner (GP) were less strongly associated with incontinence in the final longitudinal model. Incontinence was not significantly associated with area of residence, education, smoking, diabetes, attending support groups or attending social groups. Continence promotion should be considered within falls prevention interventions. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090618219 A |
| Classmark | BD: CTM: CC: F:59: 3J: 7YA |
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| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
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