Measuring barriers to incontinence care seeking

Neurourology and Urodynamics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 174-178

  Heit, Michael ^a,c   Blackwell, Linda ^a   Kelly, Susan ^b  

^a Physicians Skin Care PLLC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Barriers; Care seeking; Urinary incontinence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL CARE; MELNYCK BARRIER SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 40849086622     PISSN: 07332467     EISSN: 15206777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nau.20473     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Melnyk KAM. Barriers to care: Operationalizing the variable. Nurs Res 1990;39:108-12.
2. Lauver D. Care-seeking behavior with breast cancer symptoms in white and African-American women. Res Nurs Health 1994;17:421-31.
3. Rekers H, Drogendijk AC, Valkenburg H, et al. Urinary incontinence in women from 35 to 79 years of age: Prevalence and consequences. Eur J Ob/Gyn Reprod Biol 1992;43:229-34.
4. Hoist K, Wilson PD. The prevalence of female urinary incontinence and reasons for not seeking treatment. NZ Med J 1988;101:756-8.
5. Sandvik H, Kveine E, Hunskaar S. Female urinary incontinence - Psychosocial impact, self care and consultations. Scand J Caring Sci 1993;7:53-6.
6. Reymert J, Hunskaar S. Why do only a minority of perimenopausal women with urinary incontinence consult a doctor? Scand J Prim Health Care 1994;12:180-3.
7. Goldstein M, Hawthorne ME, Engelberg S, et al. Urinary incontinence: Why people do not seek help. J Gerontol Nurs 1992;18:15-20.
8. Rizk DEE, Shaheen H, Dunn TE, et al. The prevalence and determinants of health care-seeking behavior for urinary incontinence in United Arab emirates women. Int Urogynecol J 1999;10:160-5.
9. Heit M, Blackwell L, Kelly S. Adapting the theory of care seeking behavior for the clinical problem of urinary incontinence. J Pelvic Surg, in press.
10. Kline R, editor. 1998. Principles and practice of structural equation modeling. New York, NY: The Guilford Press.
11. Green LW. Manual for scoring socioeconomic status for research on health behavior. Public Health Rep 1970;85:815-27.
12. Byrne B, editor. 2000. Structural equation modeling with Amos: Basic concepts, applications, and programming (multivariate application series). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
13. Jacobsen SJ, Guess HA, Panser L, et al. A population-based study of health care-seeking behavior for treatment of urinary symptoms - The Olmstead County study of urinary symptoms and health status among men. Arch Fam Med 1993;2:729-35.
14. Burgio KL, Ives DG, Locher J, et al. Treatment seeking for urinary incontinence in older adults. JAGS 1994;42:208-12.
15. Duong TH, Korn AP. A comparison of urinary incontinence among black, asian, hispanic, and white women. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2001;184:1083-6.
16. Waetjen LE, Subak LL Shen H, et al. Stress urinary incontinence surgery in the United States. Obstet Gynecol 2003;101:671-6.