婦女尿失禁在國內外均是一種常見的疾病，在國內由於保守的心態，很多尿失禁的患者不好意思就醫，甚至很多的患者不認為尿失禁是一種疾病。國內65歲以下成年婦女尿失禁的比率、漏尿的頻率、漏尿對生活的影響、就醫的比率、婦女對尿失禁的心態、中醫、西醫和民俗療法的使用情形等等都值得探索。我們透過抽樣訪談的方式，成功的訪談了3537位65歲以下成年婦女，我們分析訪談問卷中看到的現象，探討台灣地區65歲以下成年婦女尿失禁的盛行率及其相關的因素。
Urinary incontinence is a common illness for all women over the world. As a result of patients’ conservative attitude in Taiwan, most of them felt embarrassed and did not go to see a doctor. Many incontinence patients did not consider urinary incontinence as a disease that needs medical treatments. In Taiwan, there are still many unknown problems about women’s urinary incontinence worth of investigation. The problems such as the prevalence of urinary incontinence about adult women under 65, the duration between two consecutive urinary incontinences, the impact of urinary incontinence to patient’s usual life, the percentage of patients who seek medical advice, the attitude of women toward urinary incontinence, the current situation about making use of traditional Chinese medical science, modem medicine, or folk convention therapy etc. are interesting to researchers. Using random sampling and interviewing questionnaire, we collected a sample data of 3537 adult women under 65 in Taiwan. In this paper, we analyze the prevalence of urinary incontinence and give some factors that associated with urinary incontinence.
