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Self-report function and disability: a comparison between women with and without urgency urinary incontinence

Kafri, Rachel, Shames, Jeffrey, Golomb, Jacob, Melzer, Itshak·2012·Disability and Rehabilitation
DOI 10.3109/09638288.2012.660597
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Purpose: To compare self-reported function and disability between women with urgency urinary incontinence (UUI) and healthy controls. Method: Self-reported function and disability were evaluated using the Late Life Function and Disability Instrument (LLFDI) in 66 women with UUI (mean age 61.9 ± 5.6) and 66 age-matched control women without UUI in a cross-sectional study. The function component evaluates difficulty in performing physical activities in upper and lower extremities and the disability component evaluates limitations in life activities and frequency in taking part in life tasks. Body Mass Index (BMI), self-report incontinence quality of life questionnaire (I-QoL) and Visual Analog Scale (VAS) that indicate the degree to which the bladder problems limited the subject’s daily life activity were also evaluated. Results: The LLFDI scores in overall function, basic and advanced lower limb function, were significantly lower in women with UUI compared with continent women, while the upper extremity function and disability components were not. There was significant negative correlation between BMI and function scores in women with UUI. Conclusion: Our results support the assumptions that the women with UUI are likely to show poorer lower extremity physical functioning and that disability is a multifactorial combination of behavioral, psychological and environmental factors, and not functional limitations per se.Implications for RehabilitationIntervention targeting lower extremity physical functioning might increase physical ability; this may reduce the frequency of urgency urinary incontinence episodes in middle age women.Targeting weight loss is of importance when planning rehabilitation in urgency urinary incontinence women.Women with urgency urinary incontinence are less likely to show poorer disability scores.

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  • Kafri et al. previously found lower-limb functional limitations, such as walking long distances and climbing, to be associated with UI, but whether UI causes or results from such disability in community-dwelling women remains unknown.

    “Kafri et al. (18) have previously shown that limitations in lower limb function, such as walking long distances and climbing, are associated with the presence of urinary incontinence, but whether urinary incontinence is the cause or the result of such disability in community dwelling women is not known.”

    From Urinary incontinence and disability in community-dwelling women: A cross-sectional study: Urinary Incontinence and Disability in Ambulatory Women (2015) · cites this paper as [18]

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Authors
Kafri, R., Shames, J., Golomb, J., & Melzer, I.
Affiliations
  • Maccabi Healthcare Services (IL)
  • Sheba Medical Center (IL)
  • Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (IL)
Corresponding author
Melzer, Itshak
ORCID
Melzer, Itshak
Venue
Disability and Rehabilitation
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2012-03-02
Volume
34
Issue
20
Pages
1699-1705
ISSN
  • 0963-8288 (ISSN-L)
  • 1464-5165
DOI
10.3109/09638288.2012.660597
OpenAlex
W2133438761
Cited by
9
References
36
Citations by year
2020: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 3 · 2012: 1
FWCI
1.84
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Disability and Rehabilitation (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Urology › Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Rheumatology › Pelvic floor disorders treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Urinary Tract Infections Management
Keywords
urge urinary incontinence, self-reported function, disability, women, body mass index, weight loss, incontinence quality of life, Late-Life Function and Disability Instrument, middle-aged women
MeSH terms
Activities of Daily Living, Aged, Cross-Sectional Studies, Disability Evaluation, Exercise Test, Female, Persons with Disabilities, Humans, Israel, Middle Aged, Pain Measurement, Quality of Life, Surveys and Questionnaires, Sensitivity and Specificity, Socioeconomic Factors, Urinary Incontinence, Reproducibility of Results, Geriatric Assessment, Case-Control Studies, Sickness Impact Profile, Self Report

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