title: Self-report function and disability: a comparison between women with and without urgency urinary incontinence.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To compare self-reported function and disability between women with urgency urinary incontinence (UUI) and healthy controls.
  
  
  METHODS
  Self-reported function and disability were evaluated using the Late Life Function and Disability Instrument (LLFDI) in 66 women with UUI (mean age 61.9 ± 5.6) and 66 age-matched control women without UUI in a cross-sectional study. The function component evaluates difficulty in performing physical activities in upper and lower extremities and the disability component evaluates limitations in life activities and frequency in taking part in life tasks. Body Mass Index (BMI), self-report incontinence quality of life questionnaire (I-QoL) and Visual Analog Scale (VAS) that indicate the degree to which the bladder problems limited the subject's daily life activity were also evaluated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The LLFDI scores in overall function, basic and advanced lower limb function, were significantly lower in women with UUI compared with continent women, while the upper extremity function and disability components were not. There was significant negative correlation between BMI and function scores in women with UUI.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our results support the assumptions that the women with UUI are likely to show poorer lower extremity physical functioning and that disability is a multifactorial combination of behavioral, psychological and environmental factors, and not functional limitations per se.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Therapy, Maccabi Healthcare Services, Rishon Le'Zion, Israel.
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kafri
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shames
authors.forename: Jacob
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Golomb
authors.forename: Itshak
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Melzer
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D005080:Exercise Test / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D015577:Geriatric Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D008875:Middle Aged; D010147:Pain Measurement; D011788:Quality of Life; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D057566:Self Report; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D018434:Sickness Impact Profile; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*