To determine the prevalence, severity, and quality-of-life (QOL) impact of female lower urinary tract symptoms (FLUTS); to determine the patterns, reasons, and factors contributing to the women's treatment-seeking behavior; and to describe the relationship between the social demographic characteristics and FLUTS.
A total of 62 patients with vesico-urethral dysfunction were investigated at the Urodynamic Laboratory (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia) at the Institute of Urology and Nephrology over a period of eleven months in 1985. In most instances the results significantly influenced a change in patient management strategy. These results are analysed and the usefulness and limitations of this modality of investigations are critically alluded to.
The present study aimed to evaluate the effects of treating lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) on anxiety, depression and psychiatric morbidity following one year of follow-up.
This study examined the effects of treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) on the health-related quality of life (physical/functional, mental, social and global aspect), pain and prostatic symptoms.