Abstract
Most of people who are urinary incontinent have one of stress incontinence, urgency incontinence, or mixed of both. The theoretical background in the development of CSES (Continence Self-Efficacy Scale) is based on Bandura's social learning theory. That is, people with high self-efficacy will choose to perform more challenging tasks and accomplishment for the treatment or improvement of incontinence. To develop and test reliability and validity of CSES, self-administered-postal questionnaire was sent. The sample consists of 222 women in urinary incontinence whose average age was 51.5 years. CSES-Incomplete Form, General Self-Efficacy Scale, GDS-Short form were surveyed. CSES-Incomplete Form had 2 factors to explain 59%and 16 of 20 items were above 0.5 in factor loading. The range of Continence Efficacy score was 22 to 160 (Mean±SD=101.7±27.9). In Testretest, reliability coefficient was 0.759 (p<0.001) and Cronbach Alpha was 0.893. Therefore, we conclude this 16-item measure of CSES is valid and reliable to evaluate their confidence to continence.
