167 THE DAILY EXPERIENCE OF URINARY INCONTINENCE IN PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR CARE PARTNERS: A QUALITATIVE EXPLORATORY STUDY
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Objective: To gain an understanding of the daily experience of urinary incontinence (UI), its management and impact on community-dwelling people who live with dementia (PLWD) and their care partners (CP). Methods: Qualitative description design. Participants comprised community dwelling PLWD, with moderate or severe UI, and their CP (a spouse or family member residing with the PLWD). Dyads took part in interviews using a semi-structured interview guide. Data were analyzed using a content analysis approach. Results: Eight dyads, all married couples, were interviewed. Content analysis resulted in 5 themes: What brings it on, Trying to manage, Asking for help, Relationship changes, and Shared burdens. For PLWD and their CP, UI was associated with relationship changes and burdens. Although some dyads found effective UI management strategies, others did not and felt this was due to shortcomings of the healthcare system. Conclusion: “In this exploratory study of community-dwelling couples, dementia-related incontinence was experienced as unpredictable, jointly managed through trial-and-error, and a source of both relational strain and shared commitment. Findings underscore the need for dyad-focused, person centered dementia-specific continence support that is practical, coordinated, and mindful of care partner burden”
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".