Psychometric Properties of the Questionnaire for Urinary Incontinence Diagnosis of Married Women of Qom city in 2015

Urinary incontinence is a physical disability that is associated with the social isolation and leads to anxiety, depression and low self-confidence. Due to the needs of women clinics to valid and reliable tools to diagnose urinary incontinence, this study was done with the aim of psychometric properties of the questionnaire for urinary incontinence diagnosis of married women of Iran.
This was a cross-sectional study that was done with the aim of assesseing the psychometric properties of the questionnaire for urinary incontinence diagnosis of married women. In this study, first the questionnaire was translated from English to Persian by the forward-backward method. The Persian final version of the questionnaire was completed by the 150 women at the clinics in Qom city. Cronbach's alpha coefficient and test-retest were ussed to assess the scale’s reliability. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were used to assess construct validity.
Exploratory factor analysis, suggested two factors that include stress incontinenceand urinary urgency each with three items. Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) test that was calculated 0.81, showed adequacy of the sample size which had an acceptable level and Bartlett's sphericity test was statistically significant (P Questionnaire of urinary incontinence in women is reliable and valid and we can use this tool in Iran.