Urinary incontinence self-report questions: reproducibility and agreement with bladder diary

✍ Scribed by Catherine S. Bradley; Jeanette S. Brown; Stephen K. Van Den Eeden; Michael Schembri; Arona Ragins; David H. Thom

• Book ID: 105861427
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 122 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0937-3462
• DOI: 10.1007/s00192-011-1503-3

✦ Synopsis

Introduction and hypothesis:

This study aims to measure self-report urinary incontinence questions' reproducibility and agreement with bladder diary.

Methods:

Data were analyzed from the reproductive risk of incontinence study at kaiser. participating women reporting at least weekly incontinence completed self-report incontinence questions and a 7-day bladder diary. self-report question reproducibility was assessed and agreement between self-reported and diary-recorded voiding and incontinence frequency was measured. test characteristics and area under the curve were calculated for self-reported incontinence types using diary as the gold standard.

Results:

Five hundred ninety-one women were included and 425 completed a diary. the self-report questions had moderate reproducibility and self-reported and diary-recorded incontinence and voiding frequencies had moderate to good agreement. self-reported incontinence types identified stress and urgency incontinence more accurately than mixed incontinence.

Conclusions:

Self-report incontinence questions have moderate reproducibility and agreement with diary, and considering their minimal burden, are acceptable research tools in epidemiologic studies.