Beyond incontinence: The stigma of other urinary symptoms

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2460-2470

  Elstad, Emily A ^a   Taubenberger, Simone P ^b   Botelho, Elizabeth M ^b   Tennstedt, Sharon L ^b  

^a IL   (United States)

^b NEW ENGLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

Author keywords

Healthcare professionals; Nursing; Public health; Stigma; Urinary incontinence; Urinary symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MICTURITION DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; ODOR; PRIVACY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STIGMA; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BOSTON; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODORS; PRIVACY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL STIGMA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; URINARY INCONTINENCE; URINATION DISORDERS;

EID: 78649484411     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2010.05422.x     Document Type: Article

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