Living With Urinary Incontinence: Women's Experiences in a Qualitative Phenomenological Study

"In accordance with the IPA (Interpretative phenomenological analysis) methodology, a semi-structured interview outline will be defined, aimed at understanding the lived experiences of women (lived experience) during their coexistence with urinary incontinence and during the treatment process.~The screwdriver questions were formulated starting from the scientific literature and with reference to the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF), created and validated by Michie et al. (2005) and later updated by Cane et al. (2012). The interview questions will be discussed in a focus group composed of a uro-gynecologist, two midwives, a nurse, an expert in qualitative methodology. The final screwdriver questions resulting from the focus group will be tested on a small group of women."

Some sociodemographic data identified from the reference literature will be collected in paper form immediately at the end of each interview, for the description of the sample. The data will concern: age, nationality, marital status, level of education, number of children, menopause, social relationships, level of information, period of onset of symptoms, type of symptomatology, frequency of episodes of urinary incontinence, quantity of urinary leakage, uro-gynecological pathological history.