[Psychodiagnostic examination of patients with functional urinary incontinence (author's transl)].
Psychometric personality questionnaires were used to test 100 patients with symptoms of urinary incontinence. The following findings were recorded: Accumulation with significance of increased psychasthenic values in patients with normal urogynaecological status was higher than that recordable from patients in pathological conditions. The group of patients with mere stress incontinence differed from the group with urge or combined urge-stress incontinence by statistically secured differentiated between means values recordable from neurosis-relevant, test scales, including psychosomatic disorders, depression, neuroticism, social introversion, and phobic disorders. Reference is made to psychogenic factors and their role within a set of multifactorial conditions conducive to functional urinary incontinence of women. Consequences regarding diagnosis and therapy are discussed.
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000150:complications; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D014550:Urinary Incontinence, Stress / Q000523:psychology
Psychodiagnostische Untersuchungen an Patientinnen mit funktioneller Harninkontinenz.