The OAB Symptom Quiz
Step 1. Answer Questions

Are you male or female?


OAB Quiz
1. How bothered have you been by frequent urination during the daytime hours?
2. How bothered have you been by an uncomfortable urge to urinate?
3. How bothered have you been by a sudden urge to urinate with little to no warning?
4. How bothered have you been by accidental loss of small amounts of urine?
5. How bothered have you been by nighttime urination?
6. How bothered have you been by waking up at night because you had to urinate?
7. How bothered have you been by an uncontrollable urge to urinate?
8. How bothered have you been by urine loss associated with a strong desire to urinate?

Please complete the quiz before submitting.


Step 2: Your results

Your score is: 0.

The score you received is not a diagnosis. But it is a good way for your doctor to learn what you are experiencing. Use this awareness tool with your doctor to help start the discussion.

The following conversation starters have been created based on your answers:

- I 'have to go' all the time. Sometimes without warning — I tried cutting back on fluids, so that I won’t have to go so much.
- It’s hard to get work done at the office because I’m always rushing to the bathroom.
- I haven’t [insert favorite activity here] in what feels like forever.
- I feel like anywhere I go, the first thing I do is look for a bathroom.
- I miss being active. I don’t go places if it will be hard to find a bathroom.
- I need to go to the bathroom a lot – and suddenly. I’ve started wearing pads just in case.
- Sometimes I don’t make it to the bathroom in time.
- I have to go without warning, even at night. I’ve been doing it for a while, waking up two or more times a night. I’m exhausted.
- I feel like I no longer have full control over my bladder – sometimes it leaks before I can get to a bathroom.
- I’m nervous about my bladder control problems. I worry that people notice how often I go to the bathroom. And I’m scared that people will notice when I have an accident.
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Step 3: Share with your doctor

Now that you have taken the overactive bladder (OAB) quiz, take the next step.

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Your OAB doctor discussion guide

This is how you answered the overactive bladder (OAB) Symptom Quiz:

How bothered have you been by... Your answers
...frequent urination during the daytime hours?
...an uncomfortable urge to urinate?
...a sudden urge to urinate with little to no warning?
...accidental loss of small amounts of urine?
...nighttime urination?
...waking up at night because you had to urinate?
...an uncontrollable urge to urinate?
...urine loss associated with a strong desire to urinate?

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To the doctor:

Pfizer has developed the OAB-V8,1 an 8-question awareness-raising tool. This tool is designed to be a conversation facilitator to help you and your patients discuss bothersome OAB symptoms, the possible cause of such symptoms, and potential treatments. The tool is intended to be a complement to — not a replacement for — the clinical diagnosis of OAB.

This awareness tool was tested in a representative population of 1,260 patients. Patients answered these questions during their regularly scheduled appointments in primary-care or gynecology practices. Although the OAB-V8 is not a diagnostic tool, patients who scored greater than 8 were more likely to have a clinical diagnosis of OAB.*

Reference:

1 Coyne KS, Zyczynski T, Margolis MK, Elinoff V, Roberts RG. Validation of an overactive bladder awareness tool for use in primary care settings. Adv Ther. 2005;22(4):381-394.

* A retrospective analysis determined that men had a higher threshold for bother. OAB symptoms were considered bothersome for men at a score of 6, while bothersome for women was a score of 8. To adjust for this, we add 2 points to men’s scores.