IMPACT OF THE SARS-COV-2 PANDEMIC ON URINARY INCONTINENCE AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF NULLIPAROUS WOMEN
Keywords: Coronavirus Infections. Urinary Incontinence. Prevalence. Women's Health.
Objectives: Assess the impact of social isolation due to SARS-CoV-2 on the prevalence and severity of urinary incontinence.
Method: Observational, longitudinal study, carried out from August / 2019 to September / 2020, at the Faculty of Health Sciences of Trairi / RN, with 37 nulliparous women aged 18 to 35 years, who answered the socio-anthropometric assessment, the Incontinence Severity Index Questionaire and the King's Health Questionnaire, before and during social isolation. For statistical analysis, the Wilcoxon test and Spearman's correlation coefficient were used. Significance level p≤0.05.
Results: 97.30% were in isolation, urge incontinence significantly reduced (p = 0.0107), the frequency of urinary incontinence improved (p = 0.0272), and its severity was correlated with: general health perception (p = 0.016 ; r = 0.646), physical (p = 0.030; r = 0.598) and social (p = 0.001; r = 0.824) limitations.
Conclusion: The social isolation of SARS-CoV-2 had an impact on reducing the prevalence of urge incontinence, improving the frequency of urinary incontinence, the more severe the worse the general perception of health, physical and social limitations.