Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS 6R0xtl9J. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. The purpose of this study is to examine the subjective experience of long-term urinary incontinence and to show how a cultural model helps define that experience. Using a narrative approach within a cultural models framework, the specific aims are to describe and analyze : (1) what urinary incontinence means ; and (2) how that meaning is constructed and negotiated by women living with urinary incontinence. 17 community-dwelling women (from Philadelphia, USA, and its immediate suburbs) participated in semi-structured interviews. Plot types and shared themes were compared with themes that emerged from media representations of female incontinence, and a cultural model was developed. Findings suggest : (1) the meaning of long-term female urinary incontinence is constructed and negotiated as a result of individual and shared experiences ; (2) the cultural model constructed by women differs significantly from the professional, primarily biomedical model ; and (3) women's narratives provide a method for accommodating similarities and differences between lay and professional models.
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