Correla？？o entre sinais e sintomas de incontinência urinária e autoestima em idosas

objective: identify the prevalence of signs and symptoms of urinary incontinence and their relationship with the self-esteem of elderly. methods: the sample was constitute by 27 elderly, mean age 67.59 (± 5.16), participants of open university for the elderly (unati) of the social gerontology program of pontifical catholic university of goiás. three instruments were used for: the mini mental state examination, a specific instrument prepared for this study and a self-esteem and self-image questionnaire developed by steglich. the statistical treatment was descriptive and non-parametrical test, with significance level of p<0.05. results: it was observed that 44.4% of the elderly have urine loss, 58.33% lose once a week, all reported losing a little amount of urine and 66.7% have urine loss for over a year. the self-esteem was considered low in 77.8% of elderly, but no correlation between self-esteem and symptoms of ui was found. conclusion: the decreased self-esteem is a frequent condition in the elderly people and several factors can contribute for this, but this sample did not allow to identify the contribution of the ui.