title: Are stress and mixed urinary incontinence associated with impaired executive control in community-dwelling older women?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess whether stress or mixed urinary incontinence (UI) is associated with deficits in executive functioning among community-dwelling women.
  
  
  METHODS
  An observational study comparing the performance, using multivariate analyses of variance (MANOVAs) and Bonferroni post hoc test, of continent women and women with stress or mixed UI during executive control tasks.
  
  
  METHODS
  The research center of the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal.
  
  
  METHODS
  One hundred and fifty-five community-dwelling women aged 60 and older participated in the study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Based on the Urogenital Distress Inventory (UDI), participants were split into three groups: 35 continent women, 43 women with stress UI, and 78 women with mixed UI. Participants completed a battery of neuropsychological tests and a computerized dual-task test.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Women with mixed UI showed poorer performances than continent and stress UI women in executive control functions. Deficits were specific to tests involving switching and sharing/dividing attention between two tasks.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results of this study suggest that mixed UI can be associated with executive control deficits in community-dwelling older women. Future intervention studies in the treatment of UI should take the higher risk of an executive control deficit in women with UI under consideration.
authors: Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Montreal, QC, Canada. lussier.maxime@hotmail.com
authors: Maxime
authors: M
authors: Lussier
authors: Mélanie
authors: M
authors: Renaud
authors: Sima
authors: S
authors: Chiva-Razavi
authors: Louis
authors: L
authors: Bherer
authors: Chantale
authors: C
authors: Dumoulin
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D004522:Educational Status; D056344:Executive Function / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D057190:Stroop Test; D014145:Trail Making Test; D014550:Urinary Incontinence, Stress / Q000523:psychology*; D053202:Urinary Incontinence, Urge / Q000523:psychology*; D014888:Wechsler Scales