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


CONCLUSIONS
Five years after 1st delivery stress incontinent women seem to recall the onset of the symptom imprecisely.
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Glostrup County Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. viktrup@dadlnet.dk
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D015331:Cohort Studies; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall; D010298:Parity; D011247:Pregnancy; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013997:Time Factors; D014550:Urinary Incontinence, Stress / Q000209:etiology*