Womens' self-management skills for prevention and treatment of recurring urinary tract infection.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The guideline on urinary tract infections (UTI) of the Dutch College of General Practitioners provides recommendations on patient-initiated treatment and prevention of recurring UTI.

Aim

To study familiarity with self-management skills for prevention of recurring UTI amongst adult women.

Design and settings

An online questionnaire was developed, based on the UTI guideline and interviews with women having recurring UTI. Pharmacists in a postgraduate education programme (N = 76) aimed to invite 10 adult women with a recurring UTI prescription to complete the questionnaire. Women were asked for informed consent to link medication record data to questionnaire data.

Method

We calculated proportions of the scores for self-management skills and analysed dif

SUBMITTER: Lelie-van der Zande R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8365691 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature