Health Education Intervention for Controlling of Stress Urinary Incontinence among Elderly Women at Zagazig City

Abstract

Background: Urinary incontinence is the involuntary or uncontrolled loss of urine from thebladder. Stress incontinence is the most common types of urinary incontinence. The aims ofthe study: to evaluate the interventional study for controlling of stress urinary incontinenceamong elderly women; Research design Quasi- Experimental design was utilized in thisstudy. Setting: the geriatric social club at Zagazig City. Sample; a purposive samplecomposed of 80 elderly women complain from stress urinary incontinence. Tools used in thepresent study were; an interview questionnaire sheet which composed of five parts The firstpart entails data about socio-demographic characteristics of the elderly women, the secondpart composed of questions to collect data about medical, obstetric, and problem of urinaryincontinence history, the third part covered the women's knowledge about urinaryIncontinence problem, the fourth part covered daily living activities and, level ofindependence. , and the fifth part deal with the psychological impact of urinary incontinenceon the elderly women, and voiding training record. Results; of the current study revealed thatmore than half of elderly women with stress urinary incontinence aged 65 years, with astatistically significant difference was found between both groups (p- value= 0.001). Morethan half of the studied group reported that there were improvement, and nearly all of controlgroup reported no improvement after the intervention of the health program. Conclusion; thehealth education, and training program improve stress urinary incontinence knowledge amongthe study group, and more than half of them reported their condition improved post healtheducation intervention. The study recommended that; provide geriatric, social club, clinicwith necessary education media about urinary incontinence, and implement practice sessionfor kegel exercise.