Testing a Model of Self-Management of Fluid Intake in Community-Residing Long-term Indwelling Urinary Catheter Users.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Urinary tract infection and blockage are serious and recurrent challenges for people with long-term indwelling catheters, and these catheter problems cause worry and anxiety when they disrupt normal daily activities.

Objective

The goal was to determine whether urinary catheter-related self-management behaviors focusing on fluid intake would mediate fluid intake-related self-efficacy toward decreasing catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) and/or catheter blockage.

Methods

The sample involved data collected from 180 adult community-living, long-term indwelling urinary catheter users. The authors tested a model of fluid intake self-management related to fluid intake self-efficacy for key outcomes of CAUTI and blockage. To account for the large nu

SUBMITTER: Wilde MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4780355 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature