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Identifying strategies for managing urinary incontinence with women who have multiple sclerosis
Author(s) -
Koch Tina,
Kelly Shayne
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2702.1999.00295.x
Subject(s) - taboo , urinary incontinence , silence , action research , participatory action research , nursing , action (physics) , medicine , work (physics) , psychology , sociology , pedagogy , engineering , surgery , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , anthropology , aesthetics , mechanical engineering
• The aim of this pilot project was to identify strategies for managing incontinence with women who have multiple sclerosis (MS). • The project used the formation of a group in which eight women with MS and four Continence Nurse Advisers (CNAs) and the first author were brought together. • In the course of the research process, the women found a voice on a topic previously thought of as taboo. When they realized that they had suffered alone and in silence they felt empowered to act. • In this way, the methodology evolved from group work into a participatory action research process (PAR), as the group initiated action. • Participants formed a self‐help group, and continued to meet with each other after the research had run its course.