RESUMO
Identificar o impacto da incontinência urinária (IU) sobre a qualidade de vida (QV), comparar os escores dos domínios de QV em mulheres com incontinência de esforço (IUE), bexiga hiperativa (BH) e incontinência mista (IUM) e estabelecer a associação entre o tipo clínico de IU e o impacto sobre a QV. Foram coletadas informações sobre idade, índice de massa corpórea (IMC) e comorbidades de 181 mulheres incontinentes atendidas em serviço público. O Observou-se diferença significante entre os dois grupos de autoavaliação do impacto da IU para todos os domínios do KHQ. O grupo IUM apresentou piores escores que o grupo IUE para todos os domínios, e o grupo BH, para limitações de atividades diárias e físicas. Houve diferença significante entre as chances de as mulheres dos grupos IUE e IUM reportarem pior impacto de IU na QV (OR=2,9; p=0,02). Assim como em outras populações de serviços especializados, a IUM foi o subtipo mais comum, e a perda urinária comprometeu de forma moderada/grave a QV, afetando o domínio limitações das atividades diárias com maior intensidade. A análise ajustada mostrou que mulheres com IUM apresentam chance aproximadamente três vezes maior de reportarem pior impacto sobre ...
To identify the impact of urinary incontinence (UI) on quality of life (QoL), to compare the scores of QoL domains in women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI), overactive bladder (OAB) and mixed incontinence (MUI) and to establish the association between the clinical type of UI and the impact on QoL. Data of 181 incontinent women attended at a public hospital were collected regarding age, body mass index (BMI) and co-morbidities. King's Health Questionnaire (KHQ) was applied and patients were classified into two groups according to the self-assessment of incontinence impact. KHQ scores were compared by the Mann-Whitney test. Depending on their urinary symptoms, women were divided into SUI, OAB and MUI groups and their scores in the KHQ domains were compared by the Kruskal-Wallis and Dunn tests. The odds ratio (OR) of a woman reporting a worse effect of UI on QoL was estimated using the binary logistic model. The control variables were: age, BMI and number of co-morbidities. A significant difference was found between the two groups of self-assessment of UI impact for all KHQ domains. The MUI group showed worse scores than the SUI group for all domains, and OAB group, for limitation of physical and daily activities. There was a significant difference between the odds of the women in the SUI and MUI groups reporting worse effects of UI on QoL (OR=2.9; p=0.02). As reported at other reference services, MUI was the most commom type, and urinary loss had a moderate/major impact on QoL, affecting mainly role limitations domain. The adjusted analysis showed that women with MUI had almost three times greater odds of reporting worse impact on QoL than women with SUI.