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  • Urology
  • Medical Devices
  • Patient Monitoring

Background:

  • Bladder diaries are crucial for evaluating lower urinary tract symptoms.
  • Literacy barriers limit the use of traditional bladder diaries.
  • Effective methods are needed to include illiterate patients in urologic assessments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a novel, cost-free bladder diary method for illiterate individuals.
  • To assess the feasibility and reliability of this method in a clinical setting.

Main Methods:

  • Forty-nine illiterate patients used 500 mL saline bottles to record urine volume and marked charts for voiding frequency.
  • Nursing staff simultaneously collected data for comparison over 24 hours.
  • Investigator-interpreted patient data was compared with nursing staff data.

Main Results:

  • No statistically significant differences were found between patient-recorded data and nursing staff data for 24-h urine volume, nocturnal output, voided volumes, fluid intake, frequency, nocturia, urgency, or incontinence.
  • The method demonstrated high reliability and accuracy.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed bladder diary method is a feasible, reliable, and cost-free solution for illiterate patients.
  • This approach can improve urologic evaluation and data collection in populations with limited literacy.