Table 2.
Frequencies and proportions of patient responses to summative questions of the lower urinary tracts symptoms domain within the validated USS PROM tool in patients who underwent single-stage buccal mucosal graft urethroplasty for radiation-induced bulbomembranous urethral stricture
| Item | Frequencies (proportions, %) |
|---|---|
| Q1: Is there a delay before you start to urinate? | |
| Never | 21 (62) |
| Occasionally | 7 (21) |
| Sometimes | 1 (2.9) |
| Most of the time | 4 (12) |
| All the time | 1 (2.9) |
| Q2: Would you say that the strength of your urinary stream is… | |
| Normal | 18 (53) |
| Occasionally reduced | 7 (21) |
| Sometimes reduced | 5 (15) |
| Reduced most of the time | 3 (8.8) |
| Reduced all of the time | 1 (2.9) |
| Q3: Do you have to strain to continue urinating? | |
| Never | 13 (38) |
| Occasionally | 5 (15) |
| Sometimes | 4 (12) |
| Most of the time | 6 (18) |
| All the time | 6 (18) |
| Q4: Do you stop and start more than once while you urinate? | |
| Never | 24 (71) |
| Occasionally | 5 (15) |
| Sometimes | 2 (5.9) |
| Most of the time | 1 (2.9) |
| All the time | 2 (5.9) |
| Q5: How often do you feel your bladder has not emptied properly after you have urinated? | |
| Never | 13 (38) |
| Occasionally | 9 (27) |
| Sometimes | 8 (24) |
| Most of the time | 3 (8.8) |
| All the time | 1 (2.9) |
| Q6: How often have you had a slight wetting of your pants a few minutes after you had finished urinating and had dressed yourself? | |
| Never | 4 (12) |
| Occasionally | 6 (18) |
| Sometimes | 9 (27) |
| Most of the time | 7 (21) |
| All the time | 8 (24) |
| Six-item LUTS sum score; mean (SD) | 7.2 (4.3) |
| Q7: Overall, how much do your urinary symptoms interfere with your life? | |
| Not at all | 8 (24) |
| A little | 16 (47) |
| Somewhat | 7 (21) |
| A lot | 3 (8.8) |
| Q8: Peeling’s voiding picture (N = 21) | |
| 1 | 4 (19) |
| 2 | 5 (24) |
| 3 | 6 (29) |
| 4 | 6 (29) |
Proportions may not add up to 100%, as they are rounded
BMGU buccal mucosal graft urethroplasty, LUTS lower urinary tract symptoms, SD standard deviation, USS PROM Urethral Stricture Surgery Patient-reported Outcome Measure