Do fertile women remember the onset of stress incontinence? Recall bias 5 years after 1st delivery.

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BACKGROUND: To evaluate fertile women's ability to recall the onset of stress incontinence. METHODS: In a prospective cohort study 305 primiparae were interviewed after 1st delivery and again 5 years later using a tested questionnaire. In 83 women with stress incontinence 5 years after 1st delivery history of onset was compared with data from the initial questionnaire by grouping women with onset before 1st pregnancy, during 1st pregnancy, during 1st puerperium or after 1st puerperium. RESULTS: Five years after 1st delivery only 26% recalled the onset of stress incontinence precisely. The statistical agreement for each of the four groups of women with different recall of onset varied with a Kappa from 0.02 to 0.38. CONCLUSION: Five years after 1st delivery stress incontinent women seem to recall the onset of the symptom imprecisely.

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Author/s: Viktrup, L (L); Lose, G (G);

Affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Glostrup County Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. viktrup(-atsign-)dadlnet.dk

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica (Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand), published in Denmark. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2001-Oct; vol 80 (issue 10) : pp 952-5

Dates: Created 2001/10/02; Completed 2001/12/07; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 11580741, status: MEDLINE (last retrieved date: 2/18/2009)

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