A Study on Correlation between Urinary Incontinence & Lower Urinary Tract Symptom and Daily Life, Sleep of Elderly Women
This study is a descriptive investigative study performed to understand the status of urinary incontinence(UI) and lower urinary...
A Study on Correlation between Urinary Incontinence & Lower Urinary Tract Symptom and Daily Life, Sleep of Elderly Women
This study is a descriptive investigative study performed to understand the status of urinary incontinence(UI) and lower urinary tract symptom(LUTS) and troubles in their daily lives and degree of sleep in elderly women, check out the relationships and provide basic data of nursing intervention for UI and LUTS and troubles in their daily lives and improvement of sleeping quality.
The subjects of this study were elderly women 65 years or more who live in I city in Gyeonggi province, who can understand the contents of survey and can communicate, and the targets who agreed to participate in the study in writing were 182 women.
The study tool was ‘urinary symptoms questionnaire' developed by Jackson, etc.(1996) for translated by Hong Jae Yeob(1997) as a tool for UI, LUTS and troubles in their daily lives, and the data were collected using Korean Sleep Scale A, a sleep measuring tool developed by Oh Jin Joo, Song Mi Soon and Kim Shin Mi(1998). Collected data used real numbers, percentage and t-test, making use of SPSS 20.0 WIN.
The results of this study are as follow.
1. Subjects of study were 75.05 years old in average. They were mostly elementary school graduates, which reached 31.3% (57 women), and their level of economic condition was mostly 'Not bad,' which took up 62.1% (113 women). 69.2% (126 women) were engaged in any type of regular exercise, and 81.3% (148 women) were 'engaged in appropriate' daily activity, which had the highest percentage of representation percentage. 65.4% (119 people) had no experience in obsterics and gynecology surgery, and normal delivery frequency was '3-4 times,' which took up 50% (91 people).
2. 48.9% (89 women) had experience in stress urinary incontinence, Urgency incontinence prevalence took up 30.8% (56 women) out of the whole subject. The frequency was 2-3 times (11%, 20 women) a week, which had the highest percentage of representation, and the quantity was several drops (22%, 40 women). They coped with the symptom as 'I only change my underwear,' 28% (51 women), and most of the frequency coping with it was once (20.9%, 38 women).
3. LUTS appeared as urgency 48.4% (88 women), abnormal strength of stream 44.5% (81 women), nocturia 42.3% (77 women), intermittent stream 40.7% (74 women), incomplete emptying 34.1% (62 women), inability to stop mid stream 28% (51 women), hesitancy, 25.3% (46 women), frequentness, 10.4% (19 women), 6% (11 women) for burning sensation and bladder pain in order.
4. 26.4% (48 women) said that they had trouble in social activities. 16.5% of subjects (30 women) said they drink little water and 15.4% (28 women) appealed troubles in daily performance. 8.8% (16 women) had troubles in interpersonal relationships, and 3.8% (7 women) said that they had troubles in relationships with their husband or friend in order.
5. The sleep score of subjects was 41.58 ±4.99 pts in average. 'I cannot get asleep well again after I wake up' scored the lowest, 'I often toss and turn while asleep' and 'I sleep very well at night' recorded low in order.
6. Sleep of urinary incontinence subjects appeared worse than the sleep of non-urinary incontinence subjects (t=2.997, p<.001). Significant symptoms over sleep with/without lower urinary tract symptom were nocturia(t=4.259, p<.001), hesitancy(t=3.468, p=.001), straining(t=2.546, p=.012), intermittent stream(t=2.190, p=.030), incomplete emptying(t=3.002, p=.003), abnormal strength of stream(t=2.476, p=.014), inability to stop mid stream(t=2.254, p=.025). A subjects drinking little water according to their having troubles with daily life had more sleep than the subjects who don't drink less water (t=3.536, p=.001), and the subjects who have troubles in daily life(t=3.259, p=.001), those in physical activity(t=2.238, p=.026), those in interpersonal relationships(t=4.356, p<.001) had more sleep than the subjects without any of these troubles.
As a result of this study, elderly women with urinary inconsistence had more troubles in daily life and sleep than those without urinary inconsistence, and those with lower urinary tract symptoms such as nocturia, hesitancy, straining, intermittent stream, incomplete emptying, abnormal strength of stream, inability to stop mid stream had more sleeping trouble. In addition, there were more sleeping trouble in elderly women who had troubles in daily life. Hereby, it is considered that nurses should implement effective nursing interventions by assessing troubles in daily life with sleeping that might occur with these symptoms in addition to symptom nursing when intervening urination inconsistence and lower urinary tract symptoms that break out frequently in elderly women.