tailieunhanh - báo cáo hóa học: " Distress and quality of life characteristics associated with seeking surgical treatment for stress urinary incontinence"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa học quốc tế đề tài : Distress and quality of life characteristics associated with seeking surgical treatment for stress urinary incontinence | Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Open Access Review Distress and quality of life characteristics associated with seeking surgical treatment for stress urinary incontinence Karen M Gil 1 2 Amber M Somerville2 Sara Cichowski1 and Jennifer L Savitski1 Address Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Akron General Medical Center Akron OH USA and 2Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and Pharmacy Rootstown OH USA Email Karen M Gil - kmg1@ Amber M Somerville - asomervi@ Sara Cichowski - saracichowski@ Jennifer L Savitski - jmvls@ Corresponding author Published 5 February 2009 Received 24 September 2008 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7 8 doi 1477-7525-7-8 Accepted 5 February 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 8 2009 Gil et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Current research focuses on three variables in evaluating the impact of stress urinary incontinence SUI on daily living severity of incontinence distress or bother resulting from incontinence and effect on health related quality of life HRQoL . Understanding the impact of these variables is important as they are the driving force behind women seeking surgical treatment. Given the importance of HRQoL in determining need for treatment as well as evaluating treatment success this review provides an assessment of the degree to which HRQoL is impaired in women seeking surgical treatment. Methods PubMed searches for the terms quality of life and distress and urinary incontinence and quality of life and bother and urinary incontinence were performed with limits of English human and female subjects through May 2008. All studies using validated .