Table 3.

Theme, Subthemes and Verbalizations.

Theme	Subthemes	Verbatims
Social and Relational Impacts	Address the culture of silence and shame	“I feel pelvic pain at night, which makes me unable to sleep properly.” “At night, I have to repeatedly go to the bathroom, waking up, and not letting me rest.” “I have to get up to the bathroom several times during the night, and I don’t sleep well.” “I usually get up to urinate about three times a night. If I am nervous, this increases until I have to go every half hour.” “Getting up to the bathroom a couple of times at night makes me unable to rest.” “Not holding urine makes me lose sleep, and having to get out of bed to go to the bathroom makes me not rest.” “I don’t sleep well almost every night because I have to get up to urinate, because otherwise my abdominal pressure increases.” “Not holding urine all night or having to urinate several times makes it very difficult for me to fall asleep and stay asleep.”
	The impacts on relationships with partners and social interactions	“I wear an absorbent at night (panties, diaper), I go to the bathroom a lot, and sometimes I do not even get there, disturbing my night’s rest.” “It interrupts my sleep to get up to go to the bathroom. You sleep with fear of leaking urine.” “I am afraid of falling into a deep sleep and peeing during the night while dreaming that I am in the bathroom.” “You are not calm, because you are afraid of leaking urine during sleep.”