Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital Centre Sestre milosrdnice, Zagreb, Croatia.
Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Croatia, Ilica 242, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia.
Wien Med Wochenschr. 2023 Mar;173(3-4):63-69. doi: 10.1007/s10354-021-00908-9. Epub 2022 Jan 10.
This study aimed to examine satisfaction with life in patients with urinary incontinence and patients who underwent an operative procedure due to urinary incontinence.
Women with a medical indication for surgery due to urinary incontinence problems but who had not yet had surgery (N = 110) and same-age women who had had a surgical procedure for urinary incontinence (N = 101) completed a set of questionnaires.
The results showed that women with urinary incontinence had significantly higher life satisfaction than women who underwent the operation. Contrary to expectations, women with urinary incontinence problems reported equal levels of life satisfaction to a comparable sample of postmenopausal normative women. Higher levels of life satisfaction were related to higher education level, employment, higher perceived socioeconomic level, and urban place of living.
It is important for physicians to address the problem of urinary incontinence with their patients and to examine the present anxiety symptoms, given that they may affect their subjective wellbeing.
本研究旨在调查患有尿失禁的患者和因尿失禁而接受手术的患者的生活满意度。
因尿失禁问题而有手术指征但尚未接受手术的女性（N=110）和接受过尿失禁手术的同龄女性（N=101）完成了一套问卷。
结果表明，患有尿失禁的女性的生活满意度明显高于接受手术的女性。出乎意料的是，患有尿失禁问题的女性与绝经后正常女性的生活满意度相当。更高的生活满意度与更高的教育水平、就业、更高的感知社会经济水平和城市居住环境有关。
医生在处理患者的尿失禁问题时，需要了解患者的焦虑症状，因为这些症状可能会影响他们的主观幸福感。
