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Sociodemographic and symptomatic characteristics of women undergoing stress incontinence surgery in the UK by N.A. Black; J.M. Griffiths; C. Pope; J. Stanley; A. Bowling; P.D. Abel is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

Objectives To: (i) describe the sociodemographic characteristics of women undergoing surgery for stress incontinence in the UK and the ways in which they differ from women of a similar age in the general population; (ii) the severity and impact of their symptoms and their expectations of surgery and; (iii) their general state of health. Patients and methods A prospective cohort study was carried out on 442 women undergoing surgery for stress incontinence in 18 hospitals in the North Thames region between January 1993 and June 1994. Sociodemographic factors, stress incontinence severity, symptom impact scores, and general health status were measured. Results Women undergoing surgery for stress incontinence were similar to their peers in the general population apart from being more likely to have smoked (61.4 against 51.1%), to have subsequently given up (39.5 and 25.3%) and to be of higher parity (≥4; 19.7 and 12.0%). Most women (81.6%) reported moderate to very severe stress incontinence. The impact of symptoms was correlated positively with severity (__P__<0.001) after accounting for its positive correlation with mental health status (__P__<0.005), socioeconomic status (__P__<0.05

Author

N.A. Black; J.M. Griffiths; C. Pope; J. Stanley; A. Bowling; P.D. Abel

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1464-4096)

Published

1996

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)