Women Urinary Incontinence Prevalence Study (WUIPS)

San Donato Group (GSD)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Female Urinary Incontinence

Treatments: Other: No intervention

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06291441

WUIPS

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this multicenter prospective and prevalence observational study is to punctually investigate and describe prevalence, predictors, quality of life and costs of Urinary Incontinence (UI) among female patients, female caregivers and female personnel in four hospitals in Northern Italy: San Raffaele hospital in Milan, San Raffaele Turro hospital in Milan, Zingonia Policlinico San Marco (BG) and Policlinico San Pietro in Ponte San Pietro (BG).

Full description

EXPECTED RESULTS

The collection of data and information through this study will aim to:

1. Understand the percentage of middle-aged women with UI.
2. Describe the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of women with UI.
3. Identify UI predictors.
4. Describe the quality of life, social impact and costs of women with UI.

Enrollment: 449 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 40 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

INCLUSION CRITERIA

• Female sex
• Middle age (40-65 years old)
• Informed consent signed
• Comprehension of written and spoken Italian language
• Female outpatients intended for any hospital unit (outpatient clinic, day surgery and day hospital patients included) and every female caregiver respecting the previous inclusion criteria, recruited at the central admission and at the private admission of the four hospitals involved
• Female workers (healthcare professionals and administrative personnel) of the four hospitals

EXCLUSION CRITERIA

• Male sex
• Young age (< 40 years) and older age (> 65 years)
• Pregnant women
• Puerperium women (up to 40 days post-partum)
• Women who had undergone urinary and gynecology surgery

Trial design

449 participants in 1 patient group

Women's single sample

Description:

INSTRUMENTS: * UI Survey: A survey, written in Italian by the authors, will collect women's socio-demographic, economic and clinical characteristics * Italian version of International Consultation of Incontinence Modular Questionnaire Urinary Incontinence Short Form (ICIQ UI-SF) * Italian version of Incontinence Impact Questionnaire-7 (IIQ-7)

Treatment:

Other: No intervention