caa a22 4500 475811151 CHVBK 20180406123759.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/PL00004022 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/PL00004022 Attitudes to Vaginal/Urethral Touching and Device Placement in Women with Urinary Incontinence [Elektronische Daten] [S. Prashar, A. Simons, C. Bryant, C. Dowell, K. H. Moore] Abstract:: Because of recent development of a number of intravaginal and urethral occlusive devices for the treatment of urinary incontinence, we aimed to develop a linear analog scale that measured women's attitudes to becoming familiar with their genital anatomy and to placing devices into or upon the vagina or urethral orifices. We also investigated whether such attitudes were affected by previous tampon or diaphragm use, or were age dependent. After pilot studies, a 10-item questionnaire was given to 104 consecutive incontinent women, only 30% of whom were quite comfortable about the concept of touching their genitalia: this attitude was age dependent. Only 21% were quite willing to insert a continence device into their vagina: this attitude varied weakly with age but was significantly affected by previous tampon or diaphragm usage. Only 15% felt very comfortable about placing a continence device on to their urethra, but the likelihood of a positive response to this concept was not at all affected by age and was only slightly more common in previous tampon users. Thus older women are less likely to understand the anatomy of their genitalia or to be comfortable about the idea of exploring it, but age is no barrier to willingness to employ urethral or vaginal continence devices per se. We suggest that such a linear analog questionnaire may help gynecologists determine which patients might respond well to the use of vaginal or urethral continence devices. Springer-Verlag London Limited, 2000 Key words:Continence devices nationallicence Genital touching nationallicence Genitalia attitudes nationallicence Prashar S. St George Hospital, University of New South Wales, Australia aut Simons A. St George Hospital, University of New South Wales, Australia aut Bryant C. Peakhurst Community Continence Clinic, Australia aut Dowell C. Royal South Sydney Community Continence Clinic, Sydney, Australia, Australia aut Moore K. H. St George Hospital, University of New South Wales, Australia aut International Urogynecology Journal Springer-Verlag 11/1(2000-01-01), 4-8 0937-3462 11:1<4 2000 11 192 https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00004022 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00004022 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Prashar S. St George Hospital, University of New South Wales, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Simons A. St George Hospital, University of New South Wales, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bryant C. Peakhurst Community Continence Clinic, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dowell C. Royal South Sydney Community Continence Clinic, Sydney, Australia, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Moore K. H. St George Hospital, University of New South Wales, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Urogynecology Journal Springer-Verlag 11/1(2000-01-01), 4-8 0937-3462 11:1<4 2000 11 192 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer