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Urinary incontinence in a community-based cohort
— prevalence and healthcare-seeking | | Author(s) | Rosebud O Roberts, Steven J Jacobson, Thomas Rhodes |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 46, no 4, April 1998 |
| Pages | pp 467-472 |
| Keywords | Incontinence ; Living in the community ; Married couples ; Surgery visits ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Participants in two cohorts - the first comprising 778 men and 762 women aged 50 and over, and the second, 2150 men aged 40 and over - completed questionnaires assessing urinary incontinence in the previous 12 months, the number of days leaked, the amount leaked, and their healthcare seeking measures for urinary symptoms. In the first cohort, the prevalence of incontinence was 24% in men and 49% in women; 29% of men and 13% of women with incontinence had sought medical advice. In the second cohort, the prevalence of urinary incontinence was 17.3%; 8.5% of men with incontinence had sought care. Men with incontinence were 1.2 times as likely to seek care for urinary symptoms as men without incontinence. The findings indicate that although urinary incontinence is relatively common among those living in the community, their care-seeking for urinary symptoms is low, particularly among women, for whom the prevalence exceeds 40% between the ages of 50 and 70. These findings suggest that strategies to promote care-seeking for incontinence need to be investigated and used in the community. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980527005 A |
| Classmark | CTM: K4: SM: L5B: 7T |
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