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| A pilot study to determine reasons for patient withdrawal from a pelvic muscle rehabilitation program for urinary incontinence | | Author(s) | Jean E Kincade, Theodore M Johnson, Carolyn Ashford-Works |
| Journal title | Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol 18, no 3, September 1999 |
| Pages | pp 379-396 |
| Keywords | Incontinence ; Older women ; Urogenital systems ; Rehabilitation ; Therapeutics ; Pilot ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Reasons were explored as to why patients with urinary incontinence withdrew from a course of behavioural treatment before completion of all sessions. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 of 25 patients who had not completed prescribed behavioural treatment at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine Continence Clinic. The women interviewed made positive or neutral comments about Kegal exercises, and understood the relationship between urinary incontinence and pelvic muscle weakness. They perceived a relationship between age and urinary incontinence, but did not think that incontinence was inevitable with ageing. Treatment of urinary incontinence became less of a priority when work, physical impairments, or illness intervened, and when there appeared to be some misunderstanding about the treatment. These findings suggest that clinicians need to better understand perceived barriers to adherence, in order to discuss these barriers and to design a more individualised approach for each patient in a continence clinic. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991022206 A |
| Classmark | CTM: BD: BKE: LM: LL: 4UC: 7T |
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