Urinary Incontinency in Older People



Urinary Incontinency in Older People

Background

From a recent estimation about 60% of the older patients undergo from the medical issue of urinary incontinency. It is an unchanging challenge for the medical practitioners to provide parallel treatments and care to those patients. In this manner, many researches have been conducted for seeking out some interventions which could be effectively beneficial for the patients of urinary incontinency (Fantl et al.1996). For example, a strong need of finding ways to provide crucial treatments and care to those patients as they are aged and there is a high risk because of their older age. For the patients with cognitive impairment, there should be a habit of regular or scheduled urination or instructions for toileting also provide a better result (Colling et al., 2003).

However, it is necessary issue and for that there is a need to implement the effective cures and treatment to the effective incontinency patients and for this the level of familiarity of medical practitioners such as nurses is so essential. Thus, there should be some plans to assess the existing knowledge and practices of nurses so that they can be competent for the care of urinary incontinency patients and this type of proficiency can be gathered through appropriate trainings and knowledge regarding that problem. In 2000, Henderson and Kashka considered the practices and knowledge for the urinary incontinency as an important thing to be understood by nurses of America. Several questions were asked by the nurses of America for conducting a research and they answered only 73% of the questions accurately which were about the processing of urinary incontinency treatments in short time. When the same research was conducting in Europe then no accessible data was found regarding this. So, it has been proved that the knowledge and practices regarding urinary incontinency vary and fluctuate between America and Europe as a transmission of U.S. research's results are not completely probable. Therefore, it was suggested to do researches and execute programs by which the knowledge and practices of nurses as well of their assistants could be evaluated. The study for the research was divided into two segments: 1). Questionnaires were develop to testify the knowledge and practices of medical practitioners with validity of the test by a team of expertise, and 2). The scales which were developed for the treatment criteria and testing of knowledge's of nurses and their assistants regarding urinary incontinency was confined for the research.

Framework of Research

A written questionnaire was used with a cross section analysis for the evaluation of practices and the knowledge levels for nurses and their assistants from several nursing care homes. The criteria for testing the knowledge and practice and the patients of urinary incontinency specially the older people was tested on scales of different magnitudes. The scale for testing or evaluating was comprised of sub sequent magnitudes such as, rate of recurrence of urinary incontinency patients and time of occurrence of those incidents, the amount of urination, drinking habits, evaluation, ...