Quality of life, mental health, and sexual disorders assessment in women with urinary incontinence

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Urinary incontinence (UI) is a common condition that affects women of all ages, cultures and races all over the world. The disorder frequency increases with age. UI has a significant impact on patients’ well-being, psychosomatic condition, quality of life, it decreases social mobility by decreasing employment and labor efficiency, and also makes a lot of women to give up paid or unpaid activities. Besides it has a negative impact on sexual health and relationship with partner. UI is not a life threatening disorder but is results in many negative medical and social consequences and also in additional financial losses. According to literature data up to 25% of women experience decrease of quality of life due to involuntary urination. Notwithstanding the fact that UI incidence is comparable with one of other chronic disorders, the studies of its influence on patients’ quality of life were started only lately and are presented in the literature over the last 15 years. Studies estimating the influence of UI on the quality of life and daily activity with the use of validated questionnaires are of particular interest. After a literature study it may be concluded that there is a consensus on various questionnaires use for estimation of quality of life of patients with UI, the importance of questionnaires use is emphasized in numerous studies.

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Mikhail Iu. Gvozdev

Yevdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry

D. Sci. (Med.) Moscow, Russia

Ekaterina O. Baranova

European Medical Center

Email: ebaranova@emcmos.ru
urologist Moscow, Russia

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