Affective Symptoms and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Women with Stress Urinary Incontinence: Cross-Sectional Study

• Published in: Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment 2020-01, Vol.16, p.535-544
• Main Authors: Steibliene, Vesta, Aniuliene, Rosita, Aniulis, Povilas, Raskauskiene, Nijole, Adomaitiene, Virginija
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Age; Anxiety; Body mass index; Cross-sectional studies; depression; Education; Emotions; Gynecology; king’s health questionnaire; Mental depression; Mental disorders; Original Research; Personal relationships; Quality of life; Questionnaires; Regression analysis; Sociodemographics; Statistical analysis; Stress; Studies; Urinary incontinence; Womens health
• ISSN: 1176-6328; 1178-2021; 1178-2021
• DOI: 10.2147/NDT.S236234

To evaluate the relationship between affective symptoms, clinical variables of uro-gynaecological history and health-related quality of life (QoL) among women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in comparison to healthy controls. In a cross-sectional study, 80 women 30 to 80 years of age diagnosed with SUI and 97 controls without symptoms of SUI provided sociodemographic data and answered the King's Health Questionnaire (KHQ) for assessing the QoL among individuals with urinary incontinence. Symptoms of anxiety and depression were assessed by Hospital Anxiety and Depression (HAD) scale with a threshold ≥7. A multiple regression was performed to reveal the cross-sectional predictors of affective symptoms and QoL among women with SUI. Women with SUI had a significantly higher prevalence of symptoms of anxiety and depression than the controls (50% vs 11% and 29% vs 3.1%, respectively; both p