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Table 1 An example of analysis process

From: Explaining factors affecting help-seeking behaviors in women with urinary incontinence: a qualitative study

Meaning unit

Code

Sub-Subcategories

Subcategories

Main Category

Theme

I change my clothes regularly, if I am not home I change both my underwear and my pants when I come (P. 5).

Frequent change of clothes

Adaptation to symptoms

Self-control

Not perceiving disease

Inhibitor

I go to the bathroom frequently so that my bladder is empty so that I do not urinate (P. 8).

Frequent urination

    

When I want to go out, I always take a sanitary pad (P. 9).

Use of sanitary pad

    

I try not to drink water or tea (P.1).

Limited fluid intake

Changing eating habits

   

I follow a diet of fruits, vegetables, and herbs (P. 2).

Eating healthy food

    

I was told that you have a prolapse bladder, but I do not, because if I had, I would have felt the prolapse of the bladder (P.8).

Lack of information the nature of the disease

Unawareness of the nature of the disease

Unawareness

  

Where I worked, I used the well water; it was near a gas station, and people said the gasoline was leaking into the well. When we used water, it had a bad smell, and after that, I developed this urinary problem (P.1).

Wrong information about the cause of the disease

    

Women with the disease don’t pursue treatment because it has no treatment. I don’t know if there is a cure (P. 2).

Unawareness of about the curability of the disease

Unawareness of treatment

   

I understand that bladder lift surgery is useless because it is not something that holds the bladder (P.16).

Misconceptions about how to treat