Help-seeking behavior among women currently leaking urine in Nigeria: is it any different from the rest of the world?

Objective: We examined help-seeking behaviors and factors influencing their choice of hospital care in women currently leaking urine.

Materials And Methods: This study was part of a multistage community survey conducted among 5001 women in Nigeria who participated in the Ibadan Urinary Incontinence Household Survey. Help-seeking behavior was analyzed among 139 respondents currently leaking urine within the population surveyed.

Maternal demand for cesarean section: perception and willingness to request by Nigerian antenatal clients.

Background: Contrary to the widely reported aversion to cesarean section in the West African subregion, maternal demand for cesarean section (MDCS) seems to be on the increase, and there is little evidence to explain this trend. The purpose of this study was to determine the perception and attitudes of Nigerian antenatal clients towards MDCS, their willingness to request MDCS, and the relationship between willingness to request MDCS and sociodemographic characteristics.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey was undertaken among 843 antenatal clients at Agbongbon/Orayan primary health care centers (PHCs), Adeoyo Maternity Hospital (SHC), and UCH Ibadan (THC), representing the three different levels of health care in Nigeria, ie, primary, secondary, and tertiary.

Theories of urinary incontinence causation: aetiological descriptions by sub-Saharan African women.

Objective: To describe the perceived causes of urinary incontinence (UI) and factors associated with awareness of causes of UI among women in the community.

Study Design: Secondary analysis of data extracted from the Ibadan Urinary Incontinence Household Survey (IUIHS), a multi-stage community survey conducted among 5001 women in Nigeria.

Results: The mean age was 34.

Prevalence and the associated trigger factors of urinary incontinence among 5000 black women in sub-Saharan Africa: findings from a community survey.

Study Type: Symptom prevalence (prospective cohort).

Level Of Evidence: 1b.

Objective: To determine the prevalence and describe possible trigger factors of urinary incontinence (UI) among adult women in a Nigerian community.

Childbirth method has an effect on non-fistulous urinary incontinence amongst sub-Saharan African women: fact or fallacy?

Introduction And Hypothesis: The association of mode of childbirth and non-fistulous urinary incontinence has been largely explored among Caucasians with little or no information from black female population living in developing countries. The aim of this study is to address this gap in knowledge.

Methods: A Household Survey of Urinary Incontinence was conducted in 2009.