남성 뇌졸중 환자의 배뇨증상과 요정체 및 삶의 질 = The Relationship between Urinary Symptom, Urinary Retention, and Quality of Life in Hospitalized Male Stroke Patients

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study was done to examine the relationship beetween urinary symptom, urinary retention and quality of life in male patients hospitalized due to stroke. A cross-sectional descriptive correlational study was conducted in the C university hospital. Data were collected between April 1 and July 30, 2008 from 91 male stroke patients. the questionnaire included general items as well as items related to disease characteristics, a quality of life scale (Stroke-Specific Quality of Life, SS-QOL), and the international prostate symptom score (IPSS) for voiding symptoms. Urinary retention was measured using portable ultrasound scanning (CUBE scan, Biocon-500l 371458).
The average age of the participants was 60.6 years old. Of the 91 participants, 75.9% had experienced their first stroke and 56% were diagnosed as having suffered cerebral infarction. Most of the participants (67%) were paralyzed on either one or both sides. The mean scores for the quality of life and urinary symptoms were 2.85±.85 and 14.71, respectively. Urinary urgency and nocturia were the most common symptoms. 67.1% of participants had moderate or severe urinary symptoms and 28.6% had urinary retention.
Quality of life was negatively correlated with urinary symptom (r=-.870, p=.000_ and urinary retention (r=-.759, p=.000) and urinary retention (r=-.759, p=.000). Urinary symptom was positively correlated with urinary retention (r=.745, p=.000).
The findings suggest that the efforts of nurses to recognize and manage the urinary symptoms and urinary retention of patients as early as possible will promote a better quality of life in hospitalized stroke patients.