Health Education Intervention for Controlling of Stress Urinary Incontinence among Elderly Women at Zagazig City | ||||
| Zagazig Nursing Journal | ||||
| Article 4, Volume 9, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2013, 2013, Page 49-65 PDF (1.06 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/znj.2013.38842 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Reda El-Sayed El Badawy1; Salwa Abbas Ali2; Amany Rashed Abo El-Seoud3; Eman Shokry Abd Allah4 | ||||
| 1Assistant lecturer of community health nursing, faculty of nursing, Zagazig University,( | ||||
| 2Professor of community health nursing, Faculty of nursing, Zagazig University,( | ||||
| 3Professor of community Medicine, Faculty of medicine, Zagazig University, | ||||
| 4Assistant Professor of community health nursing, Faculty of nursing, Zagazig University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Urinary incontinence is the involuntary or uncontrolled loss of urine from the bladder. Stress incontinence is the most common types of urinary incontinence. The aims of the study: to evaluate the interventional study for controlling of stress urinary incontinence among elderly women; Research design Quasi- Experimental design was utilized in this study. Setting: the geriatric social club at Zagazig City. Sample; a purposive sample composed of 80 elderly women complain from stress urinary incontinence. Tools used in the present study were; an interview questionnaire sheet which composed of five parts The first part entails data about socio-demographic characteristics of the elderly women, the second part composed of questions to collect data about medical, obstetric, and problem of urinary incontinence history, the third part covered the women's knowledge about urinary Incontinence problem, the fourth part covered daily living activities and, level of independence. , and the fifth part deal with the psychological impact of urinary incontinence on the elderly women, and voiding training record. Results; of the current study revealed that more than half of elderly women with stress urinary incontinence aged 65 years, with a statistically significant difference was found between both groups (p- value= 0.001). More than half of the studied group reported that there were improvement, and nearly all of control group reported no improvement after the intervention of the health program. Conclusion; the health education, and training program improve stress urinary incontinence knowledge among the study group, and more than half of them reported their condition improved post health education intervention. The study recommended that; provide geriatric, social club, clinic with necessary education media about urinary incontinence, and implement practice session for kegel exercise. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Stress Urinary Incontinence; elderly women; health education | ||||
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