ArticleObstetrics and gynecology2015
Factors associated with seeking treatment for urinary incontinence during the menopausal transition.
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- Pooled it
- The Effect of Health Fatalism and Health-Seeking Behaviors on the Frequency of Non-Medication Coping Strategy Use in Women with Urinary Incontinence in Türkiye.International urogynecology journal · 2025Article
- Effect of High-Intensity Focused Electromagnetic Technology in the Treatment of Female Stress Urinary Incontinence.Biomedicines · 2024Article
- Preferences for Public Health Messaging Related to Bladder Health in Adolescent and Adult Women.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2023Article
- Need for Public Health Messaging Related to Bladder Health from Adolescence to Advanced Age.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2023Article
- Non-medication coping strategies for urinary incontinence in older adults: factors associated with frequency of use.International urogynecology journal · 2022Article
- The Epidemiology and Population-Based Studies of Women with Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms: A Systematic Review.Turkish journal of urology · 2022Article
- Women's barriers for contacting their general practitioner when bothered by urinary incontinence: a population-based cross-sectional study.BMC urology · 2021Article
- Early Life Sexual Trauma and Later Life Genitourinary Dysfunction and Functional Disability in Women.Journal of general internal medicine · 2020Article
- Lower urinary tract symptoms and health-related quality of life in Hong Kong primary care: a cross-sectional study.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2020Article
- The menopause transition and women's health at midlife: a progress report from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN).Menopause (New York, N.Y.) · 2019 · on this mapReview
- Urinary incontinence between 12 and 24 months postpartum: a cross-sectional study nested in a Brazilian cohort from two cities with different socioeconomic characteristics.International urogynecology journal · 2019Article
- Interpersonal trauma and aging-related genitourinary dysfunction in a national sample of older women.American journal of obstetrics and gynecology · 2019Article
- Healthcare-seeking behavior and its relating factors in South of Iran.Journal of education and health promotion · 2019Article
- Report and Research Agenda of the American Geriatrics Society and National Institute on Aging Bedside-to-Bench Conference on Urinary Incontinence in Older Adults: A Translational Research Agenda for a Complex Geriatric Syndrome.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2018Review
- Disparities in Female Pelvic Floor Disorders.Current urology reports · 2018Review
- Factors associated with reasons incontinent midlife women report for not seeking urinary incontinence treatment over 9 years across the menopausal transition.Menopause (New York, N.Y.) · 2018Article
- Nonbiologic factors that impact management in women with urinary incontinence: review of the literature and findings from a National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases workshop.International urogynecology journal · 2017Review
- Noctural Enuresis as a Risk Factor for Falls in Older Community Dwelling Women with Urinary Incontinence.The Journal of urology · 2016Article
- The Epidemiology of Pelvic Floor Disorders and Childbirth: An Update.Obstetrics and gynecology clinics of North America · 2016Review
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine whether longitudinal urinary incontinence (UI) characteristics, race or ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and education were associated with UI treatment-seeking in a prospective cohort of community-dwelling midlife women.
methodsWe analyzed data from 9 years of the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation. The study asked participants reporting at least monthly UI about seeking treatment for their UI at baseline and in visit years 7, 8, and 9. Our main covariates included self-reported race or ethnicity, income, level of difficulty paying for basics, and education level. We used multiple logistic regression to examine associations between demographic, psychosocial, and longitudinal UI characteristics and whether women sought UI treatment. We explored interactions by race or ethnicity, socioeconomic status measures, and education level.
resultsA total of 1,550 women (68% of women with UI) reported seeking treatment for UI over the 9 years of this study. In multivariable analyses, women had higher odds of seeking treatment when UI in the year before seeking treatment was more frequent (adjusted odds ratio [OR] 3.16, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.15-8.67) and more bothersome (adjusted OR 1.09, 95% CI 1.01-1.18), with longer symptom duration, and with worsening UI symptoms (adjusted OR 1.75, 95% CI 1.01-3.04). Women who saw physicians regularly, had more preventive women's health visits, or both were more likely to seek UI treatment (adjusted OR 1.18, 95% CI 1.07, 1.30). Race or ethnicity, socioeconomic measures, and education were not significantly related to seeking treatment for UI.
conclusionWe found no evidence of racial or ethnic, socioeconomic, or education level disparities in UI treatment-seeking. Rather, longitudinal UI characteristics were most strongly associated with treatment-seeking behavior in midlife women. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: II.
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