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A Rezai-Pour, T Mir-Mowlai, M Mahmoudi, Z Jabbari Khan Beh Bin,
Volume 8, Issue 3 (7-2002)
Abstract
Urinary incontinence is a common problem in women. It seems to have negative effects on different aspects of the patients' life. This study was undertaken to determine the quality of life in women with urinary incontinence with referred to hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences. The samples consisted of 263 women all over the age of 18. None of them were pregnant, had not delivered babies last 3 months, had no chronic diseases, were willing to answer questions posed and were also randomly chosen. The samples of the questionnaire about quality of life were collected using I-QOL and variables of type of urinary incontinence, intensity of urinary incontinence, duration of illness, occupation and education were taken into consideration. Analysis of data has been done by using SPSS Statistical tests 2, Pearson and Mantel - Hanzel. Findings of this research indicated that none of the patients led a comfortable life and (45.2%) of them suffered from a quality of life below standard. 51.3% of the women until the time of the study had not visited a physician and 54.8% of them had the impression that the symptoms seemed to be a normal and common problem and that is why they did not seek professional help. The results also indicated that the effect of urinary incontinence was significantly related to the type of urinary incontinence (p<0/0001), duration of the disease (p<0/02) and level of education (p<0/006). In conclusion despite the negative effects of urinary incontinence on the quality of life of women, most of the patients did not seek professional help. It is suggested that the health care providers pay more attention to this issue and utilizing health care centers, train women in the prevention of urinary incontinence.
Maryam Damghanian, Minoo Pakgohar, Mahmoud Tavousi, Nahid Dehghan Nayeri, Maryam Najafi, Roghieh Kharaghani, Barbara Broome , Zinat Ghanbari,
Volume 23, Issue 4 (1-2018)
Abstract
Background & Aim: Urinary incontinence is a common disorder in women. Pelvic floor muscle exercise is one of the effective treatment methods. Self-efficacy is considered an effective and strong predictor of willingness to perform and continue these exercises. In Iran, there is no appropriate tool for assessing self-efficacy. So this study was performed to determine the psychometric properties of the Broome scale in women with urinary incontinence.
Methods & Materials: A psychometric study of the Broome scale was conducted on women with urinary incontinence who referred to health centers affiliated to Tehran University of medical sciences in 2015.In this study, following processes were implemented: translation, back translation, face validity, content validity using CVR and CVI, reliability using Cronbach’s α coefficient, and construct validity using explanatory factor analysis.
Results: The face validity was confirmed through the modification of ambiguous items based on the patients’ views. Content validity (CVR= 0.8 and CVI= 0.8 to 0.9) and reliability (Cronbach’s α= 0.96) were also confirmed. Explanatory factor analysis showed two factors with eigen value more than 1 including pelvic floor exercise self-efficacy in usual and special situations. These factors explained 82.08 percent of the total variance.
Conclusion: The reliability and validity of the Broome scale were confirmed for using by Iranian women with urinary incontinence, and this scale can be used to measure these women's self-efficacy in performing pelvic floor exercises.
