Experiences and management of urinary incontinence following treatment for prostate cancer: Disrupted embodied practices and adapting to maintain masculinity.

IF 1.9 4区医学 Q3 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Health Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Epub Date: 2023-06-30 DOI:10.1177/13634593231185266

Richard Green

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Abstract

This article explores men's experiences of and management strategies for urinary incontinence (UI) following treatment for prostate cancer. Qualitative interviews with 29 men, recruited from two prostate cancer support groups, explored their post-treatment experiences. Drawing on a conceptual toolkit connecting theories of masculinities, embodiment, and chronic illness, this paper identifies older men's experiences and strategies for managing UI and explores how these are shaped by their masculinities. This article identifies interdependence between managing stigma for UI and maintaining masculinity. Men's embodied practices for engaging in activities in public, crucial to masculine identity, were disrupted. In response, they adopted new reflexive body techniques to manage and resolve their UI, and thereby address the threat to their masculine identities, characterised in three strategies: monitoring, planning, and disciplining. The new embodied practices men described suggest three factors as important components for adopting new reflexive body techniques: routine, desire, and unruliness.

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前列腺癌治疗后尿失禁的经历和处理：被打乱的体现实践和适应以保持男子气概。

本文探讨了男性在接受前列腺癌治疗后的尿失禁（UI）经历和处理策略。对从两个前列腺癌支持小组招募的 29 名男性进行了定性访谈，探讨了他们的治疗后经历。本文利用一个概念工具包，将男性气质、体现和慢性疾病理论联系起来，确定了老年男性在尿失禁管理方面的经验和策略，并探讨了这些经验和策略是如何由他们的男性气质所塑造的。本文指出了处理对尿毒症的成见与保持男性气质之间的相互依存关系。男性在公共场合参与活动的具体做法对其男性身份至关重要，但却遭到了破坏。作为回应，他们采用了新的反思性肢体技巧来管理和解决他们的尿失禁问题，从而应对男性身份所面临的威胁，这体现在三种策略中：监控、计划和约束。男性所描述的新的身体实践表明，有三个因素是采用新的反身性身体技巧的重要组成部分：常规、欲望和不羁。

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