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Researchers from University of Minnesota discuss findings in incontinence.
According to recent research from the United States, "Although many women suffer from fecal incontinence (FI), little is known about their day-to-day experiences. The aims of this phenomenological study were to understand the experience of women living with FI from their perspective and to elicit women's self-care and management strategies for FI."
"Ten women participated in audiotaped, unstructured interviews that were transcribed into a written text. The text was analyzed using Van Manen's approach for deriving themes," wrote C. Pedenmcalpine and colleagues, University of Minnesota (see also Incontinence).
The researchers concluded: "The findings display the women's experience of lived time, lived space, lived relationships, and lived body and the essential theme of ''controlling the body out of control.'' The findings demonstrate that FI is a problem that affects women in all dimensions of their lifeworld experience and ...
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