Prevalence and Risk Factors for Urinary and Anal Incontinence in Tunisian Middle Aged Women
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- University of Monastir
- Enrollment
- 400
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Prevalence of anal incontinence
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The publications on prevalence and risk factors of urinary and anal incontinence in women were performed mainly in Europe and America. Consequently, result extrapolation to Tunisian population may not be a good practice which justifies this study and demonstrates its importance.
Detailed Description
A cross-sectional study will be conducted among female doctors and nurses randomly selected from 3 large hospitals in the center of Tunisia. The prevalence of urinary incontinence and anal incontinence will be measured using validated questionnaires.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Observational Model
- Cohort
- Time Perspective
- Cross Sectional
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- Female
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •Professional seniority in the current service over than 6 months
- •Subject has given his consent
Exclusion Criteria
- •An ongoing pregnancy
- •A recent birth (less than 6 months)
- •A psychiatric disease
- •An acute or chronic kidney disease
- •Neurological disease
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Prevalence of anal incontinence
Time Frame: 1 month
The participant will be asked to fill out the anal incontinence Jorge and Wexner which contains five questions scored on a scale from zero (normal continence) to 20 (total incontinence).
Prevalence of urinary incontinence
Time Frame: 1 month
The participant will be asked to fill out the urinary symptom profile questionnaire (USP). This questionnaire contains 13 items to assess stress urinary incontinence, urge urinary incontinence and dysuria. Each question is scored from 0 to 3 providing a maximal score of 9, 21 and 9 for stress urinary incontinence, urge urinary incontinence and dysuria respectively. Women diagnosed with both stress and urge urinary incontinence by the USP were classified as having mixed urinary incontinence.
Secondary Outcomes
- Risk factors for urinary and anal incontinence(1 month)
Investigators
Syrine GALLAS
Principal investigator
University of Monastir