PURPOSE: To identify the factors associated with treatment-seeking behavior for urinary incontinence (UI) among postpartum women.
DESIGN: This is a cross-sectional study. A total of 142 women with postpartum UI responded a telephone interview between August of 2010 and March of 2011. The association between the treatment-seeking and the predicting variables were measured through odds ratio and 95% confidence interval.
RESULTS: The treatment-seeking percentage was 37.3% and the treatment percentage was 27.5%. The result of multiple logistic regressions indicated that: counseling about UI in pregnancy, postpartum physical exercise, and Spanish nationality predicted 47.8% of the variance in treatment-seeking behavior.
CONCLUSIONS: The lack of counseling largely determines the low rates of treatment-seeking among Spanish mothers.
CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Nursing counseling during pregnancy can contribute substantially to increasing the number of women treated for postpartum UI.
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Ruiz de Viñaspre Hernández R, Tomás Aznar C, Rubio Aranda E. Are you the author?
Professor and Doctoral Student, School of Nursing, University of "La Rioja," La Rioja, Spain.
Reference: J Nurs Scholarsh. 2014 Jun 19. Epub ahead of print.
doi: 10.1111/jnu.12095
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 24948125
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