Prevalence of Urinary Incontinence in Different Age Categories

Universidade de Franca

Status: Completed

Conditions: Urinary Incontinence

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00906607

0077/08

Details and patient eligibility

About

Introduction: Urinary incontinence (UI) is considered erroneously by many as being a phenomenon of the aging process, however there is a growing prevalence of complaints of UI in nulliparous and nulligest young women.

Objective: To investigate the prevalence of urinary incontinence in women of different age groups.

Method: 78 nulliparous and nulligest women of different resident age groups in the city of France, being these divided in: G1 (10-18 years); G2 (20-35 years); G3 (45-60 years) and G4 (65-75 years). Excluded from this study were women with cancer or surgeries of the inferior urinary treatment, urinary infection, alterations cognitive, pregnant and obesity. All the participants were questioned as a perception of urine loss, to the efforts or effortlessly evident.

Full description

All participants were asked about perceived loss of urine, the effort or without apparent effort. The responses of participants from G1 were offered by parents and / or responsible.

Enrollment: 78 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 10 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• nulliparous and nulligest women

Exclusion criteria

• women with cancer reported
• surgeries of the inferior urinary treatment
• urinary infection
• cognitive alterations
• pregnant
• obesity

Trial design

78 participants in 4 patient groups

Group I

Description:

10-18 years

Group II

Description:

20-35 years

Group III

Description:

45-60 years

Group IV

Description:

65-75 years