Risk factor of urinary incontinence among menopausal women at Babylon City

Abstract EN

Purpose : to identify the risk factors of urinary incontinency for menopausal women.

Methodology : A descriptive analytic study was conducted to identify the risk factor for urinary incontinency and selected non-probability sample (purposive sample) from (200) menopausal women (45-65) who have urinary incontinence as visitors and caregiver women who attend at Hila surgical teaching hospital during the period 1 / 11 / 2010-30 / 3 / 2011.

Questionnaire format used for data collection was designed and constructed after reviewing related literatures and previous studies and consists of the following variables : demographic and reproductive characteristics of menopausal women who suffers from urinary incontinence.

Results : the study found that the highest percentage was (33.5 %, 32 %) of study sample their age group (50-54, 45-49) years, (74 %) they are married and (43.5 %) was illiterate.

Women in this study had (19 %) urge incontinence, (16.5 %) stress incontinence with (38 %) having mixed incontinence while (10.5 %) mild incontinence with 38.5% having sever incontinence.

And the results show that there was statistical significant correlation coefficient between type of urinary incontinence and Age at marriage (years), Age at first pregnancy (years) and parity.

There was statistical significant correlation coefficient between degree of urinary incontinence and age (years), age at marriage, age at first pregnancy (years) and body mass index.

There was statistical significant correlation coefficient between duration of urinary incontinence with occupation and economic status age (years), parity, and number of abortion.

The other risk factors include smoking, parity, types of deliveries, previous curettage, previous hysterectomy, Diabetic Mellitus, hypertension disorder, urinary tract infection, coughing, constipation, genital prolapsed and obstructed delivery.