Investigation of coping style and its related factors for elderly women with stress urinary incontinence

Abstract

Objective To survey the coping style and its related factors of elderly women with Stress Urinary Incontinence(SUI) in Tai′an city community. Methods Totals of 520 cases of elderly women patients with SUI were selected by convenience sampling and surveyed by questionnaires. The questionnaire consisted of medical coping questionnaire, stress urinary incontinence cognitive subscale and the sociology population data. Results The score of SUI cognitive subscale of the 520 patients were (4.79±3.20), which was at a low level. The scores of each dimension of medical coping questionnaire were higher than the norm, which had no significant differences (P>0.05). The scores of avoidance and acceptance-resignation were (16.87±2.63) and (12.65±2.89), which were significantly different with the norm (t=14.866, 21.408; P<0.01). Age, marital status, education level and stress urinary incontinence cognitive level were the influencing factors of elderly female patients with SUI. Conclusions The coping style varies in women with different age, marital status, different education level and cognitive level. Therefore, clinical and community health work in the medical personnel should be analyzed comprehensively, and consider the complexity of the factors of coping style in the patients, in order to guide their coping style. Key words: Aged; Urinary incontinence, stress; Questionnaires; Female; Coping style; Influencing factors