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. 2016 Aug 11;5(1):1331.
doi: 10.1186/s40064-016-2965-z. eCollection 2016.

Incidence and risk factors of urinary incontinence in women visiting Family Health Centers

Meral Kılıç  1
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Incidence and risk factors of urinary incontinence in women visiting Family Health Centers

Meral Kılıç. Springerplus. .

Abstract

Background: The objective of this study is to determine the incidence and the risk factors of the urinary incontinence in women visiting the Health Family Center.

Methods: 430 women, who visited three Family Health Centers in the city center of Erzurum for any reason between 25 November and 20 January 2016, were included in this study without any sampling. The data were collected by using the face-to-face interview method. Percentage distribution, Chi square test, and logistic regression analysis were used in order to analyze the data.

Results: It was determined that 37.2 % of these women had urinary incontinence, but only 29.3 % of them visited a physician because of this complaint. Among a total of 160 women with urinary incontinence findings, stress type incontinence was observed at the highest rate (33.7 %), which was followed by mixed type (31.8 %), urge type (20.6 %) and other types (overflow, continuous urinary incontinence) (13.7 %). It was found that urinary incontinence had a significant correlation with the number of children, genital prolapse, duration of delivery longer than 24 h, diabetes and urogenital infection, but not with the age at the first and last childbirth, presence of the episiotomy, birth weight over 4 kg, and smoking.

Conclusions: It was determined that one-third of the women had urinary incontinence and certain medical and obstetric conditions were affecting the development of urinary incontinence. It is thought that it is important for the healthcare personnel to take the progression of the urinary incontinence under control by preventing the risk factors and to encourage the patients to seek treatment with the help of the proper information indicating that urinary incontinence is a treatable and preventable condition.

Keywords: Prevalence; Risk factors; Urinary incontinence.

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