Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40296650›Full record

ArticleJournal of advanced nursing2026

Self-Care Activities of Community-Residing Adults With Indwelling Urinary Catheters: A Scoping Review.

Connie Schumacher, Melissa Northwood, Rachael Nalunga, Taylor Swindall, Matt Cary

Abstract readScoping Review
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of advanced nursing, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Connie SchumacherDepartment of Nursing, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9065-6975
Melissa NorthwoodSchool of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5043-8068
Rachael NalungaDepartment of Nursing, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
Taylor SwindallBrock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
Matt CaryBrock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimTo map self-care activities related to indwelling urinary catheters in community-residing adults.

designScoping review guided by Joanna Briggs Institute methodology. DATA SOURCES: Systematic searches of electronic databases (CINAHL, MEDLINE, Embase) and targeted grey literature search were conducted for documents published between 2000 and October 2023.

methodsDocuments describing self-care activities and the management of catheter-related complications in community-residing adults (aged ≥ 18 years) were included. Three independent reviewers used Covidence to screen titles and abstracts and full-text articles, appraise the quality of the literature, and extract data. Directed content analysis of the extracted data was conducted, informed by the mid-range theory of self-care of chronic illness, and summarised narratively.

resultsA total of 32 documents were included; nine qualitative studies, eight expert opinions, six quantitative studies, five guidelines, two quality improvement projects, and two reviews. The majority (81.3%) of the documents were concerned with the prevention and management of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI; n = 26). Many self-care activities were reported across the self-care processes of maintenance, monitoring, and management. Maintaining the catheter and drainage system, and self-care education topics related to maintaining the catheter were the most cited (n = 17 [53.1%] and n = 20 [62.5%], respectively). Less emphasis was given to management self-care activities, such as seeking support from clinicians (n = 13, 40.6%).

conclusionThe scoping review findings provide a greater understanding of how persons with indwelling catheters maintain and monitor their catheters and highlight that much less is known about how they manage situations when complications arise. IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PROFESSION AND/OR PATIENT CARE: The findings can guide the design of community care programmes and serve as a basis for developing patient self-care education resources. These findings should be consolidated and examined by nursing researchers, clinicians, and persons with lived experience to provide holistic guidance on self-care of indwelling catheters and associated complications.

Indexed as

Catheter-Related InfectionsCatheters, IndwellingIndependent LivingSelf CareUrinary CatheterizationUrinary CathetersUrinary Tract InfectionsAdultAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleHumansMaleMiddle Agedcatheter complicationscommunity nursingpatient educationscoping reviewself‐careurinary catheter

Identifiers

PMID40296650
PMCPMC12810644

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.