Female urinary incontinence: a cross-sectional study from a Thai rural area

Abstract

The aims of this study were to investigate the prevalence and associated factors of female urinary incontinence in a Thai rural area and to investigate the impact of female urinary incontinence on quality of life. A population-based cross-sectional survey was performed from September 2003 to February 2004. A total of 1,126 women completed the questionnaires. The overall prevalence of urinary incontinence was 36.50%, i.e. stress urinary incontinence (33.60%), urge urinary incontinence (11.00%) and mixed urinary incontinence (8.07%). Urinary incontinence adversely affected quality of life; the mixed urinary incontinence group reported significantly greater impairment than the stress and urge urinary incontinence groups. Advancing age, labouring occupation, postmenopausal status, years since menopause, medical diseases, childbirth and vaginal delivery were associated with this problem.

Post-partum urinary incontinence among Saudi women

“…In the mixed group of primiparous and multiparous women, some studies reported mixed UI as being more common than stress UI [6,18]. Other studies have reported stress UI as the most common [19,20]. We are not aware of any other studies that have investigated the prevalence of each type of UI in primiparous women although some studies have investigated the specific type of UI in primiparous women but not all types [17].…”

Prevalence and Risk Factors of Urinary Incontinence and its Impact on the Quality of Life and Treatment Seeking Behavior among Malaysian Women: A Review

“…UI has been associated with a number of risk factors although their exact role remains to be clearly established [34][35][36][37]. The prevalence increases at around the age of 50 years [33,[38][39][40], especially around the age of menopause [36,41,42]. It then appears to remain stable until the age of 65 years [35,43], after which it starts to increase [43][44][45][46].…”

“…Asian women are reported to suffer more from MUI [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38]. Previous gynecological operations, abdominal hysterectomy, surgical menopause [45][46][47] or urologic surgery [36,44] have all been linked as risk factors to UI. Obesity [43,47,48], increased body mass index (BMI) and weight gain [49] have also been identified as potential risk factors.…”

“…Furthermore, older women who have developed minimal urine leak (MUL) in the past year are more likely to progress to frequent urinary leakage over a 3-year period [58,59]. A lot of studies have suggested a significant association between UI, obstetric history [36,41] and mode of child delivery, particularly vaginal delivery in younger women [60][61][62][63][64][65]. Some have suggested that the primary cause of UI is related to parity [55] and fetal weight [63], pregnancy, and childbirth, regardless of route [66,67].…”

“…Younger women taking oral contraception [45] had also complained of UI indicating that estrogen and progesterone contained in the preparation may also be associated factors in UI. Low educational level, low family income [40], laboring occupation and occupational lifting [36] have also been mentioned as possible risk factors contributing to UI.…”