Urinary Incontinence Impact on Quality of Life for 181 Women in Southeastern Brazil

181 incontinent women from a public hospital in Southeastern Brazil were assessed using the King's Health Questionnaire. The study, authored by Carlos Augusto Faria, found mixed urinary incontinence had almost three times greater odds of a worse quality-of-life impact than stress incontinence. Data includes patient age, body mass index, co-morbidities, and detailed KHQ domain scores.

Use Cases

• Predicting the severity of quality-of-life impact based on incontinence type and patient demographics like age and BMI.
• Comparing quality-of-life domain scores (e.g., role limitations, physical activities) between stress, overactive bladder, and mixed incontinence groups.
• Estimating odds ratios for worse quality-of-life outcomes using clinical variables as described in the binary logistic model.

Strengths

• Includes data from 181 patient records, providing a substantive sample for analysis.
• Uses the validated King's Health Questionnaire (KHQ) to measure multiple quality-of-life domains.
• Reports a specific, statistically significant odds ratio (OR=2.9; p=0.02) for the impact of mixed incontinence.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to a single public hospital in Southeastern Brazil.

Provenance

Source

Carlos Augusto Faria

Collection Method

Data collected from incontinent women attended at a public hospital, using the King's Health Questionnaire and clinical assessments.

Geography

Southeastern Brazil