Effects of urinary incontinence subtypes on women's quality of life (including sexual life) and psychosocial state.
OBJECTIVE
Our aim was to investigate the effects of urinary incontinence subtypes on women's quality of life (including sexual life) and psychosocial state.


STUDY DESIGN
The patients, who applied to our clinic from March 2011 to August 2011, were identified and stratified into three groups: those with stress incontinence proved urodynamically (USI), those with urge incontinence (UI), and those with mixed incontinence urge incontinence (UI) proved by urodynamic and clinic evaluation. Scores on the Beck anxiety inventory (BAI), pelvic organ prolapse/urinary incontinence sexual questionnaire (PISQ-12), urogenital distress inventory (UDI-6), and incontinence impact questionnaire (IIQ-7) were compared between the urinary incontinence subtypes.


RESULTS
According to urodynamic and clinical examination of 111 women with urinary incontinence, 59 (53%) had USI, 35 (32%) had UI, and 17 (15%) had MI. BAI-scores significantly differed between the USI and UI groups (p=0.030) and between the USI and MI groups (p=0.011) not between the UI and MI groups (p=0.597). UDI-6 scores did not significantly differ between the three groups (p=0.845). IIQ-7 scores significantly differed between the USI and MI groups (p=0.003) and between the UI and MI groups (p=0.006) but not between the USI and UI groups. Patients with USI had significantly lower PISQ-12 scores than those with UI (p=0.015).


CONCLUSIONS
These differences in the effects of incontinence subtypes should be kept in mind in the evaluation of patients with urinary incontinence. Psychiatric assessment may improve the management of incontinence in women, especially UI and MI.
['Asoglu|Mehmet Resit|MR|', 'Selcuk|Selcuk|S|', 'Cam|Cetin|C|', 'Cogendez|Ebru|E|', 'Karateke|Ates|A|']
D000328:Adult D000368:Aged D001007:Anxiety D015331:Cohort Studies D005260:Female D006801:Humans D008875:Middle Aged D011788:Quality of Life D012189:Retrospective Studies D012725:Sexual Behavior D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires D014549:Urinary Incontinence D014550:Urinary Incontinence, Stress D053202:Urinary Incontinence, Urge D014563:Urodynamics
Psychosocial state Stress incontinence Urge incontinence Beck anxiety inventory