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.
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 Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
400
Faculty of Medecine
Monastir, Tunisia
Prevalence of urinary incontinence
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.
Time frame: 1 month
Prevalence of anal incontinence
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).
Time frame: 1 month
Risk factors for urinary and anal incontinence
Time frame: 1 month
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