Assessment of Symptoms for Adult Patients with Lower Urinary Tract Infection

Hadi Atiayh, Hussein

	Assessment of Symptoms for Adult Patients with Lower Urinary Tract Infection
IRAQI JOURNALOF COMMUNITY MEDICINE
Article 1, Volume 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 115-119
Author
Hussein Hadi Atiayh
Abstract
Definition: - Lower UTIs are inflammation of the urinary bladder (bacterial cystitis), prostate gland (bacterial prostatitis), and urethra (bacterial urethritis) Objective:- The aim of study are to assess symptoms for patients with lower urinary tract infection (UTI) and to find out the relationship between symptoms with general information (age, gender, marital status, educational level, occupation, and residential) Methods:- A descriptive study was conducted on (50) patients diagnosed with lower urinary tract infection who were admitted at the Surgical Specialties Teaching Hospital and Baghdad Teaching Hospital and Al-Yermouk teaching hospital from 212009 to 162010. Questionnaire was constructed and presented in six items related to demographic data and eighteen items were concerning the symptoms for patients with lower urinary tract infection. Validity of questionnaire was response through panel of ten experts. Test- Retest reliability was determined through a computation of Pearson Correlations for the symptoms scales (r=0.84). The data was collected through the utilization of questionnaire and interview technique. The data were analyzed through the descriptive statistical approach (frequency, percentage, and cumulative percent) and inferential statistical approach (Person correlation coefficient and mean of score). Results:- The results of the study revealed that major age were (48-57) years and most of the study samples were female (60%) and they are married (82%) and have illiterate in the level of education (48%) and they live in urban residence (68%). Conclusion:- The findings of the study concluded there are some items were sever more than the other such as difficult in a voiding, urgency during voiding, nocturia, back pain, dark color with urine, discomfort in lower abdomen, and anorexia. The findings also indicated a strong positive relationship between age with symptoms that mean increase of age increase of symptoms for patient with lower UTI and also find that low level of education increase of symptoms. Key word: Symptoms lower UTI.
Keywords
Symptoms lower UTI

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