Associated Factors of Urinary Incontinence among community dwelling women beneficiaries of Long Term Care Service

The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of urinary incontinence(UI) and its associated factors among community dwelling women beneficiaries of long term care (LTC) service. The data was collected from 192 elderly women dwelling in community and using LTC service in Seoul and Gyeonggi province from March 1 to April 15. The tools used in this study were Hendrickson's(1981) Urinary Incontinence scale revised by Youngsook Lee(1994), ADL scale revised by Youngsook Kwon(2004) with Katz Index(1963), GDSSF-K revised by Baikseok Kee(1996) with Sheikh & Yesavage's(1986) depression scale and MMSE-K revised by Jonghan Park & Yongchul Kwon(1989) with Folstein's(1975) cognitive function scale. The data was analyzed with the SPSS Windows 19.0 program for statistical analysis of real numbers, percentages, one-way ANOVAs, independent t-tests, and Multiple linear regression(Stepwise). The results were as follows: 1. The prevalence of UI was 79.7%, of which the mean score of UI severity was 25.53±9.50 out of 60 with mixed UI type. 2. The severity of UI was significantly different according to age (F=4.48, p=.013), service ratings (F=14.05, p<.001), duration of home service usage (F=4.92. p=.001), household type (F=2.63, p=.037), ADL (t=3.70, p<.001), depression (F=12.36, p<.001), cognitive function (F=15.06, p<.001), number of diseases (F=6.55, p=.002) and dementia (t=-4.34, p<.001) 3. The adjustment by Multiple Linear Regression for each statistically different variables in this study showed that depression, cognitive function and the number of diseases were significant predictors explaining 23% of the variance in UI severity. In conclusion, the UI among community dwelling women beneficiaries of long term care (LTC) service proved so severe that proactive nursing interventions of UI should be developed and provided with the consideration of their depression, cognitive function and diseases.

Author dc:creator

• 이, 종원

Contributors dc:contributor

• 송, 미숙
• 대학원 간호학과
• 201224370

• 장기요양급여대상 재가여성노인
• 요실금
• community dwelling women beneficiaries of long term care service
• urinary incontinence

Language dc:language

ko

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http://dcoll.ajou.ac.kr:9080/dcollection/jsp/common/DcLoOrgPer.jsp?sItemId=000000017715
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oai:repository.ajou.ac.kr:201003/10818