To develop a questionnaire to evaluate Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice related to Urinary Incontinence and establish the content validity, domain reliability and test-retest reliability of the developed questionnaire. To find out the Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice related to Urinary Incontinence in the general population using the developed questionnaire.
Knowledge, Attitude and Practice questionnaire on urinary incontinence was developed from the existing literature and in depth interview. Its content validity and internal consistency was established using a Delphi process involving experts in urinary incontinence rehabilitation and Cronbach’s alpha respectively. Test – retest reliability was established using Intraclass correlation coefficient. Validated and internally consistent questionnaire was then administered on 384 people aged 20 years above from general population.
Content validity of the questionnaire and Cronbach’s alpha was 0.97 and 0.86 respectively. There were 207 (54%) female and 107 (46%) males, mean age was 41.03±11.54 years. In Knowledge domain, 41% not consider it as UI if there is uncontrolled loss of urine daily. In Attitude domain, majority of questions was found to be neutral. In Practice domain, 36% of participants expressed UI as embarrassing problem, difficult to talk about and the majority of them consider it not a serious condition to consult a health professional.
In general population there is inadequate knowledge, attitude and practice of UI, hence the health care professionals should create awareness as an initial measure.
Understanding the knowledge,attitude and practice of UI is important for developing and developed countries to plan effective ways of treatment and also to create awareness.
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