The analysis of the effect of the education given to the women diagnosed as stress urinary incontinance

This is a prospective semi-experimental study that aims to assess the efficiancy of education given to increase the life quality of the women diagnosed as SUI . The research group consists of forty women who applied to the urology polyclinic of the hospital in which the research were conducted between the dates 19.12.2008 and 17.04.2009, have the right criteria for the study, accepted to join to the study and were chosen casually. During the study, four of the patients could not be reached because of the changes in contact information.The study was completed with 36 patients.To collect the data of the research, the pre-application initiatory survey sheet, quality of life scale, education control list were filled by being asked to the patients by the researcher. The presence and intensity of incontinence was assessed by the pad test. The patients were trained in accordance with the training booklet and pelvic exercises were carried out. Six week later, the patients were called by phone. I-QOL scale was applied once more to assess if there had been any improvement in incontinence QOL. The collected data were evaluated with the help of the SPSS-12 soft ware.The avarage age of the women who participated was 55.86 ±11.1 The avarage of the pad test of the women was 24.72 ± 20.0. None of the women had not been trained before and only 4 % of them had medical treatment. The effect of the stress urinary incontinence on the quality of life was evaluated by I-QOL scale. While the avarage of sub-dimension of the limitation of women?s pre-education attitudes was 22.5 ± 6.3, the post-education avarage increased to 28.9 ± 6.5.While the avarage sub-dimension of pre-education psychosocially being affected was 27.3 ± 7.4, post-education avarage increased to 34,7 ± 6,6. While the avarage sub-dimension of pre-education social isolation was 10.6 ± 4.0, post-education avarage incrased to 16,5 ± 4,2. It was been clearly seen that pre- test scores were significantly higher than last test scores after training.The outcomes of the research showed that the education given to women who were diagnosed as Stres Urinary Incontinence increased their quality of life.Key words: SUI, pelvic basal excercises, pad test, I-QOL.