ABSTRACT
Background@#Urinary incontinence is a common and distressful problem worldwide as well as in Mongolia. According to a survey conducted by Dr.Sanjsuren, 32.2% of participated woman were diagnosed with the urinary incontinence. To diagnose and treat this highly prevalent disease, it is important to know the most common types of incontinence in Mongolian woman and its risk factors. However, there is no known studies in Mongolia ultimately concentrated on the prevalence of common types of incontinence and its causes. Therefore, this study aimed at assessing the common types of incontinence among Mongolian woman and its key risk factors.@*Materials and Methods@#We used a cross sectional data collected from the urogynecological cabinet based on the first maternal hospital in Ulaanbaatar from June to November 2016. 117 woman aged 20-80, who has incontinence symptoms participated in this study. The type of urinary incontinence is checked by urodynamical equipment “Uromic Samba”. Participants also answered a questionnaire with a purpose of assessing the risk factors.@*Results@#Descriptive analysis shown that age, body weight, number of birth and type of delivery may be the key risk factors of incontinence. Foreinstance, the prevalence of incontinence was 6.8 % among woman aged 25-35 and increases with age 26.3 % at age 36-45, 36.4 % with age group 46-55, 30.5% with age 56-80 above respectively. According to the BMI, 81.2% percent of the participating woman with incontinence are obese. As a result of birth survey among total respondents, 59.3% had 3 or more deliveries. Association between incontinence and age, body mass index was found to be the strongest and type of the delivery was the weakest. 40% of total respondents have stress incontinence, 27% have mixed incontinence, 25% have urge incontinence, 8% have other type incontinance symptoms.@*Conclusion@#The most prevalent type of incontinence among Mongolian woman is stress incontinence followed by the urge incontinence. Delivery, body weight was associated with incontinence.