Seeking Medical Care for Urinary Incontinence among Working Women Aged 20-50 Years
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Health Care-Seeking Behaviors among Women Suffering from Urinary Incontinence
Background: Although urinary incontinence is not life threatening, the condition is one of ‘inconvenience’ and is associated with widespread adverse physical and psychological consequences. For many women, there is a general consensus to ‘accept’ the condition, bear the problem and not seek health care to manage the physiological leakage until the problem becomes unbearable and distressing to t...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of High Institute of Public Health
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2357-061X
DOI: 10.21608/jhiph.2021.157697