Validation of an obstetric fistula screening questionnaire in rural Nepal: a community-based cross-sectional and nested case-control study with clinical examination.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To validate a symptom-based fistula screening questionnaire and estimate obstetric fistula (OF) prevalence in rural Nepal.

Design

Cross-sectional and nested case-control study.

Setting

Sarlahi District, Nepal.

Population

Parous, reproductive age women.

Methods

The questionnaire assessed symptoms of vesicovaginal and rectovaginal fistula (VVF and RVF, respectively), stress and urge urinary incontinence (SUI and UUI, respectively), fecal incontinence (FI), and included interviewer observations on the smell and presence of urine and/or stool. All women who screened positive for OF and a randomly selected group of women who screened negative for OF were included in a nested case-control study (one case, four normal controls, and four incontinent co

SUBMITTER: Chen C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5272910 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature