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Toileting behavior and urinary tract symptoms among younger women
INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: Irregular or infrequent voiding due to avoiding school toilets can contribute to a number of urinary problems among school children. There is, however, a lack of studies on younger women. The aim of this study was to investigate toileting behavior and the correlation to...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5655598/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28382484 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00192-017-3319-2 |
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author | Sjögren, Johanna Malmberg, Lars Stenzelius, Karin |
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description | INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: Irregular or infrequent voiding due to avoiding school toilets can contribute to a number of urinary problems among school children. There is, however, a lack of studies on younger women. The aim of this study was to investigate toileting behavior and the correlation to lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) among young women (age 18–25 years). A further aim was to validate the Swedish version of the Toileting Behavior scale (TB scale). METHODS: Quantitative descriptive design was used with two questionnaires: the International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire Female Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (ICIQ-FLUTS) and the TB scale, together with six background questions. The questionnaires were distributed in November 2014 to 550 women aged 18–25 years randomly selected from the population register in southern Sweden. RESULTS: A total of 173 (33%) women responded. Mean age was 21.6 years (range 18–25). The Swedish version of TB scale showed good construct validity and reliability, similar to the original. Most toileting behavior was significantly correlated with LUTS, which were common, as 34.2% reported urgency and 35.9% urine leakage at least sometimes or more often. CONCLUSIONS: LUTS were quite common in this group of young women. Toileting behaviors were also significantly related to urinary tract symptoms. Thus, TB scale was useful in this population, and the translated Swedish version showed good construct validity and reliability. |
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spelling | pubmed-56555982017-11-01 Toileting behavior and urinary tract symptoms among younger women Sjögren, Johanna Malmberg, Lars Stenzelius, Karin Int Urogynecol J Original Article INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: Irregular or infrequent voiding due to avoiding school toilets can contribute to a number of urinary problems among school children. There is, however, a lack of studies on younger women. The aim of this study was to investigate toileting behavior and the correlation to lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) among young women (age 18–25 years). A further aim was to validate the Swedish version of the Toileting Behavior scale (TB scale). METHODS: Quantitative descriptive design was used with two questionnaires: the International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire Female Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (ICIQ-FLUTS) and the TB scale, together with six background questions. The questionnaires were distributed in November 2014 to 550 women aged 18–25 years randomly selected from the population register in southern Sweden. RESULTS: A total of 173 (33%) women responded. Mean age was 21.6 years (range 18–25). The Swedish version of TB scale showed good construct validity and reliability, similar to the original. Most toileting behavior was significantly correlated with LUTS, which were common, as 34.2% reported urgency and 35.9% urine leakage at least sometimes or more often. CONCLUSIONS: LUTS were quite common in this group of young women. Toileting behaviors were also significantly related to urinary tract symptoms. Thus, TB scale was useful in this population, and the translated Swedish version showed good construct validity and reliability. Springer London 2017-04-05 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5655598/ /pubmed/28382484 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00192-017-3319-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Sjögren, Johanna Malmberg, Lars Stenzelius, Karin Toileting behavior and urinary tract symptoms among younger women |
title | Toileting behavior and urinary tract symptoms among younger women |
title_full | Toileting behavior and urinary tract symptoms among younger women |
title_fullStr | Toileting behavior and urinary tract symptoms among younger women |
title_full_unstemmed | Toileting behavior and urinary tract symptoms among younger women |
title_short | Toileting behavior and urinary tract symptoms among younger women |
title_sort | toileting behavior and urinary tract symptoms among younger women |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5655598/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28382484 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00192-017-3319-2 |
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