title: Urinary incontinence self-report questions: reproducibility and agreement with bladder diary.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study aims to measure self-report urinary incontinence questions' reproducibility and agreement with bladder diary.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were analyzed from the Reproductive Risk of Incontinence Study at Kaiser. Participating women reporting at least weekly incontinence completed self-report incontinence questions and a 7-day bladder diary. Self-report question reproducibility was assessed and agreement between self-reported and diary-recorded voiding and incontinence frequency was measured. Test characteristics and area under the curve were calculated for self-reported incontinence types using diary as the gold standard.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Five hundred ninety-one women were included and 425 completed a diary. The self-report questions had moderate reproducibility and self-reported and diary-recorded incontinence and voiding frequencies had moderate to good agreement. Self-reported incontinence types identified stress and urgency incontinence more accurately than mixed incontinence.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Self-report incontinence questions have moderate reproducibility and agreement with diary, and considering their minimal burden, are acceptable research tools in epidemiologic studies.
authors.affiliation: Comprehensive Access and Delivery Research and Evaluation Center, Iowa City Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Iowa City, IA, USA. catherine-bradley@uiowa.edu
authors.forename: Catherine S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Bradley
authors.forename: Jeanette S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Stephen K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Van Den Eeden
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schembri
authors.forename: Arona
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ragins
authors.forename: David H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Thom
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008499:Medical Records; D008875:Middle Aged; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D057566:Self Report; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors; D014550:Urinary Incontinence, Stress / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology*; D053202:Urinary Incontinence, Urge / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology*