Prevalence of lower urinary tract symptoms and influencing factors in women
Abstract
Purpose: This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of LUTS in women and the influencing risk factors.
Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted with 377 women who presented to the internal medicine outpatient departments of a training and research hospital for examination. The data were collected with a questionnaire form and the “Bristol Female Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms-Short Form (BFLUTS-SF)”.
Results: The prevalence of at least one LUTS in women was 92.3%. A statistically significant relationship was found between the menopausal status, chronic cough, stress urinary incontinence (SUI) presence in the mother or sister, the presence of a large baby and SUI in a previous pregnancy, and the BFLUTS-SF total scores.
Conclusion: We found that storage-related symptoms were most common in these women, and LUTS affected the sexual life and quality of life negatively. Therefore, it is necessary to increase the sensitivity of health professionals to this issue, and to raise the awareness of women about the risk factors, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of LUTS with future training.
Keywords
Lower urinary tract symptoms , prevalence , risk factors , women
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