BMC Women's Health (Nov 2022)

Self-efficacy and positive thinking as predictors of health-related quality of life in women with stress urinary incontinence

  • Ching Hui Chien,
  • Xuan Yi Huang,
  • Shu Pen Hsu,
  • Yi Hua Yen,
  • Hun Shan Pan,
  • Feng Chu Yen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-022-02025-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Highlights • General quality of life was influenced by positive thinking in women with SUI. • Health-related QOL was influenced by self-efficacy in women with SUI. • Symptom distress was a predictor of urinary incontinence-specific QOL. • Multi-element programs are needed to improve the health-related QOL of women with SUI.

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