Identifying Opportunities for Prevention of Adverse Outcomes Following Female Genital Fistula Repair: Protocol for a Mixed-Methods Study in Uganda.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Female genital fistula is a traumatic debilitating injury, frequently caused by prolonged obstructed labor, affecting between 500,000-2 million women in lower-resource settings. Vesicovaginal fistula causes urinary incontinence. Other gynecologic, neurologic and orthopedic morbidity may occur during fistula development. Women with fistula are stigmatized; limit engagement in social, economic, or religious activities; and report high psychiatric morbidity. Improved global surgical access has reduced fistula consequences yet post-repair risks impacting quality of life and well-being include fistula repair breakdown or recurrence and ongoing or changing urine leakage or incontinence. Limited evidence on risk factors contributing to adverse outcomes hinders interventions to

SUBMITTER: El Ayadi AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10187434 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature