| Summary: | The submitted diploma thesis deals with life quality of women with stress urinary incontinence before and after surgery. Theoretical part of thesis is concerned with women urinary incontinence and characteristics of their life quality, also psychosocial issue of incontinence, economical load and problematic issue of nursing care - therapy and long-term postoperative care. The research part points out, that the life quality of women before surgery is reduced in the whole life areas. In addition to psychical and social troubles, the incontinence caused less physical problems. The quality and comfort of life according to results of I-QoL questionnaire was significantly improved after surgery. Surprising result is a fact, that the majority of women older than 45 years bought the helpful tools for incontinence by themselves in spite that the tools are too expensive for them. Just a small percentage of women asked a doctor for prescription for those tools. It is following from women awareness of the urinary incontinence, that older women were less informed than women at younger age.
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