Analysis of the usage of continence pads and help-seeking behavior of women with stress urinary incontinence in Poland

Table 2 Time from onset to first medical consultation of UI in SUI patients

Grades of SUI	Patients who revealed the problem to their doctor		Time between disease onset and informing the doctor	Time between informing the doctor and thorough diagnostic tests
	(n = 84)		(years ± SD)	(years ± SD)
	n	%	(years ± SD)	(years ± SD)
1	33	60.0 %	13.1 ± 12.5	3.3 ± 4.6
2	36	52.9 %	12.8 ± 11.5	4.5 ± 4.9
3	15	71.4 %	23.0 ± 12.8	3.5 ± 3.4
p	>0.05^a		0.002^b,c	0.19^b

^alevel of significance for Chi-square test
^blevel of significance for Kruskal-Wallis test
^cDuncan post-hoc analysis in particular grades of SUI: 1 vs. 3, p = 0.0002, 2 vs. 3, p = 0.003

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