Psychodiagnostic studies were conducted in 100 women with urinary incontinence. The VNPI test proposed by Regel and Schulze, a neurosis screening test, was adopted. Fifty-two of the patients studied revealed test results which were either pathological or called for further elucidation. Pathological VNPI findings were obtained in 23% of the women with stress incontinence, in 48% of those with combined incontinence, and in 85% of the patients with urgency incontinence. The present study suggests that psychodiagnosis is necessary beside comprehensive somatic urinary incontinence diagnosis.
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