Screening for urinary incontinence in acute care for elders unit: comparative performance analysis of Katz’s ADL and ICIQ-UI-SF

Identifying the most reliable and valid bladder health screening tool: a systematic review

“…All but two articles [71,73] assessed the reliability of the tool (table 4); test-retest reliability (n = 16), internal consistency (n = 14), inter-rater reliability (n = 4). Twelve studies explored the tool's validity (table 5); content validity (n = 5), criterion validity (n = 3), construct validity (n = 11).…”

“…Of the three identified screening questionnaires, the most frequently psychometrically assessed questionnaire was the IPSS, as demonstrated in table 3 [n = 11; 3 x AUASI [50,55,56]; 8 x IPSS [52,[57][58][59][60][61][62][63], where five articles assessed the English version of the tool and six articles assessed other language versions including: Mandarin [59], Turkish [52], Spanish [61,62], Japanese [58] and Arabic [57]. Nine articles assessed the psychometric properties of the ICIQ-UI SF [64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72], where five assessed the English version [64,[69][70][71] and five articles explored alternative language versions including: Arabic [67], Slovene [66], Japanese [65], Italian [68], Chinese and Malay [64]. Only two articles were found which assessed the validity and reliability of the B-SAQ [73,74], both of which used English versions of the tool.…”

“…This is not surprising as most of these studies (n = 9) assessed the IPSS, which was developed to screen for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH). Seven studies assessed data on both men and women [58,[65][66][67]69,71,72]. Of these five studies, one assessed the IPSS [58] and the remaining six studies assessed the ICIQ-UI SF.…”

“…Of these five studies, one assessed the IPSS [58] and the remaining six studies assessed the ICIQ-UI SF. Five of the six studies had a higher female to male ratio (60%-40%; 84%-16%; 61%-39%; 66%-34%; 77%-23%) respectively [65][66][67]69,71], (the remaining study did not report the gender ratio [80]), whereas the only study assessing the IPSS for both sexes had a higher male to female ratio (54%-46%). Three studies reported data on women only [64,68,71].…”

“…Another study compared the ICIQ-UI SF with a 1-hour pad test and found that frequency of leakage, amount of leakage and total ICIQ-UI SF scores were significantly correlated with the 1-hour pad test results [65]. Mary-Heck et al [71] found that the ICIQ-UI-SF had 100 percent specificity and sensitivity when compared diagnostic results made by a team of health professionals. Tubaro et al [68] however found that there was a large variability between the scores on the ICIQ-UI SF and the reported results from a 72-hour voiding diary, although specific results were not provided.…”