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To evaluate and compare the impact of stress, urge, and mixed urinary incontinence on health-related quality of life.

The impact on health‐related quality of life of stress, urge and mixed urinary incontinence

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Nested case-control study reveals worse quality of life in urge and mixed incontinence, suggesting the urge component drives patient burden.

To evaluate and compare the impact of stress, urge, and mixed urinary incontinence on health-related quality of life.
Conducted a nested case-control study using the USA National Overactive Bladder Evaluation (NOBLE) survey with age- and gender-matched controls (N=919 total participants; n=171 with incontinence).
Participants completed validated questionnaires including the OAB-q, MOS SF-36, MOS Sleep Scale, and CES-D scale.
Categorized incontinent participants by subtype into urge (UI, n=69), stress (SI, n=62), and mixed (MI, n=40) incontinence, analyzing differences via t-tests and ANOVA with post hoc comparisons.
All OAB-q subscale scores were significantly worse in the MI group compared to the SI group (P < 0.01), with no significant differences observed between MI and UI.
The UI group reported significantly greater symptom bother and lower sleep scores than the SI group (both P < 0.001), while MI participants experienced more incontinence episodes than SI participants (P = 0.02).
Both UI and MI groups demonstrated significantly higher urinary urge intensity (P < 0.001) and rated their need for medical care significantly higher (P < 0.01) than those with SI.

Coyne et al. (2003) studied this question.

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Nested case-control study reveals worse quality of life in urge and mixed incontinence, suggesting the urge component drives patient burden.