title: Incontinence: enhancing care in women's prisons.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  There is no evidence on the prevalence of urinary and faecal incontinence symptoms in women prisoners.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To explore the extent and management of bladder and bowel symptoms to inform prison health services and prison nursing practice.
  
  
  METHODS
  An anonymous self-report questionnaire tailored to low levels of English literacy, and administered in one women's prison.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Women prisons have a higher reported prevalence of urinary and faecal incontinence, constipation and nocturnal enuresis than community populations; this is an unrecognised health problem.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Prison primary care nurses should consider introducing sensitive but direct questions on bladder and bowel symptoms into admission assessment processes.
authors: Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, St George's University of London.
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authors: Drennan
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