The impact of the overactive bladder on health‐related utility and quality of life

Abstract

status, frequency, urgency, and stress incontinence. RESULTSOf 2193 surveys dispatched, 609 (27.8%) were returned; of these patients, 52% had incontinence, of whom 83% had both frequency and urgency, and 60% stress incontinence. Patients with stress incontinence reported a mean ( SD ) EQ5D index of 0.578 (0.331), compared to 0.714 (0.281) for all other patients ( P < 0.001). From the SF36, respondents scored lowest in the role physical domain and highest in the mental domain, with mean scores of 33.8 and 72.1, respectively. Multivariate analysis of SF36 and EQ5D index scores, controlling for age, gender and body mass index, showed that incontinence was associated with a notable reduction in the EQ5D index and SF36 scores across all domains. CONCLUSIONThis study showed a significant reduction in quality of life for all patient groups with OAB; in particular, stress incontinence had the greatest impact. KEYWORDSincontinence, overactive bladder, quality of life, urinary problems, utility OBJECTIVETo evaluate the impact of the overactive bladder (OAB) on quality of life and healthrelated utility. PATIENTS AND METHODSIn a study conducted in Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust, patients were identified from an academic urology unit inpatient database for admissions and sent a postal survey. The survey pack comprised questionnaires on demography, urological functioning, health utility (EQ5D index ), and health-related quality of life (Short Form-36, SF36). Respondents were classified according to general urinary

The Effect of Education on Quality of Life in Elderly Females with Urinary Incontinence, Refereeing to Jahandidegan Center in Shiraz-Iran, 2011

“…Their findings are consistent with several other studies such as [6,9,14,15,25,29,30]. They found that urinary incontinence has more widespread negative effects on quality of life.…”

“…Individuals with UI do not always seek medical help [9]. There is a misconception that the condition cannot be treated [13,14]. UI is not life threatening [8], does not lead to death [15] but the symptoms often impair the social, physical and psychological well-being of affected individuals [16].…”

Solifenacin in overactive bladder syndrome: pharmacoeconomic analysis

“…Tali pesi sono definiti in funzione di un indice di patologia combinato, dato dalla somma dei singoli indici di incontinenza e [21] frequenza. Gli Autori del modello originario hanno ottenuto tali pesi correlando i sintomi urinari con i punteggi del questionario EQ-5D somministrato a 461 pazienti svedesi con OAB (continenti e incontinenti) arruolati in uno studio di Willingness To Pay [20] (Tabella IV).…”

“…Gli Autori del modello originario hanno ottenuto tali pesi correlando i sintomi urinari con i punteggi del questionario EQ-5D somministrato a 461 pazienti svedesi con OAB (continenti e incontinenti) arruolati in uno studio di Willingness To Pay [20] (Tabella IV). I dati originari sono stati rielaborati sulla base di un più recente studio di popolazione inglese condotto su 609 soggetti con OAB [21] …”

A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Urinary Incontinence in Young Women

“…In recent years many researchers have focused on the evaluation of Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) in persons with UI, including their psychosocial functioning, broadly understood www.intechopen.com (Sutherst & Brown, 1980;Norton, 1982;Norton et al, 1988;Grimby et al, 1993;Grimby et al, 1997;Samuelsson et al, 1997;Wyman et al, 1997;Wyman, 1998;Chiarelli et al, 1999;Kelleher et al, 1997;Swithinbank & Abrams, 1999;Brown et al, 1999;Coyne et al, 2000;Kelleher, 2000;Coyne et al, 2003;Fultz & Herzog, 2001;Badia et al, 2004;Currie et al, 2006;Bidzan, 2008;Bidzan, 2011). It should be emphasized in this context that the evaluation of HRQOL has become in recent times the most important diagnostic and prognostic index for the functioning of patients, regardless of the disease (Majkowicz et al, 1997;Brown et al, 1999a;Swithinbank & Abrams, 1999;Woodman et al, 2001), and is recommended by the International Continence Society Williams, 2004).…”