NCT05277467

Elderly Urinary Incontinence Caregiver Burden

Urinary Incontinence in Elderly Patients and Its Impact on Caregiver Burden: An Overlooked and Underestimated Topic

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ankara Medipol University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the severity of urinary incontinence (UI) in elderly patients and its impact on the burden of care in their family caregivers.

Detailed description

The objective was to evaluate the severity of urinary incontinence (UI) in elderly patients and its impact on the burden of care in their family caregivers. The study is a descriptive, cross-sectional and relationship-seeking type of research. It was conducted prospectively with 80 elderly(≥65 years of age) patients with UI and their family caregivers who applied to the urology clinic between June and December 2021. The data was collected using the "Socio-Demographic Characteristics Data Collection Form". UI was assessed by "International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire Short Form(ICIQ-UI-SF)" and caregiver burden by means of Zarit Burden Scale(ZBI) form.

Conditions

• Caregiver Burden
• Urinary Incontinence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	no intervention	no intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-06-01
• Primary completion: 2021-12-30
• Completion: 2021-12-30
• First posted: 2022-03-14
• Last updated: 2022-03-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)