The interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior (IPTS; Joiner, 2005) has been subjected to a number of rigorous investigations and has shown to be a promising lens through which to understand suicide. One area thus far left unstudied with respect to the IPTS is emotion dysregulation. The bulk of the work examining the role of emotion dysregulation in suicidality has focused on suici...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to characterize differences in health-related quality of life among women presenting for treatment of fecal incontinence. METHODS Among 155 women presenting for treatment of fecal incontinence in a specialty clinic, validated questionnaires measured impact on quality of life (Modified Manchester Health Questionnaire) and severity (the Fecal Incontinence Sever...

OBJECTIVE • To assess the measurement characteristics of the Patient Perception of Intensity of Urgency Scale (PPIUS) in patients with overactive bladder (OAB). PATIENTS AND METHODS • Adult women with at least a 3-month history of OAB. The design was a 4-week, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of transdermal oxybutynin, with a 2-week placebo run-in and 8-week, open-label exte...

Copyright © 2015 Korean Continence Society Corresponding author: Dae Kyung Kim http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5709-3768 Department of Urology, Eulji University Hospital, 95 Dunsanseo-ro, Seo-gu, Daejeon 35233, Korea E-mail: [email protected] / Tel: +82-42-611-3529 / Fax: +82-42-611-3538 Submitted: December 11, 2015 / Accepted after revision: December 11, 2015 To the editor: In the previous issue of...

Young adults are at risk for initiation of tobacco use and progression to tobacco dependence. Not every person who smokes cigarettes becomes tobacco dependent, however, and non-daily smoking is becoming more prevalent among those who use tobacco. It is likely that individual differences in psychosocial and behavioral factors influence risk for engaging in non-daily and daily cigarette smoking. ...

The extension of timed formalisms to a hybrid setting with urgency, has been carried out in a rather straightforward manner, seemingly without difficulty. However, in this paper, we show that the combination of urgency with abstraction from continuous variables leads to undesired behavior. Abstraction from continuous variables ultimately leads to a timed system again, but with a much richer set...

AIMS We used data from the General Longitudinal Overactive Bladder Evaluation (GLOBE) to understand predictors of variation in urgency and urinary incontinence (UI) symptoms over time. METHODS A random sample of Geisinger Clinic primary care patients (men and women) 40+ years of age were recruited for a survey of bladder control symptoms at baseline and 12 months later. Symptom questions used...

Purpose: To compare urgency symptoms in women with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS) and overactive bladder (OAB). Materials and Methods: Women with diagnoses of IC/BPS (n=194) and OAB (n=85) were recruited from the clinical practices of Urologists (n=8) and Gynecologists (n=16) with recognized expertise in the diagnosis and management of these conditions. Subjects completed ...