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To assess this, 139 out of 200 members of a retired men\u2019s social club (mean age 63.5) were successfully interviewed. Two-fifths of the participants felt distressed due to their urinary problems and one-third of the participants had been troubled by urinary incontinence or nocturia in the past six months. Yet the majority of the participants (55%) did not seek help from any medical profession. The group who were distressed by urinary problems showed significantly poorer mental health, reported more fatigue symptoms, were less satisfied with their sexual relationships and overall self-esteem, and were less able to stop unpleasant thoughts or to get social support than the non-distressed group. Cultural perceptions of masculinity and decreased sexual vigor might have affected participants\u2019 willingness to seek help at an early stage. Targeted health education, mutual support groups, and sensitively designed services at the community level are suggested to address these physical and mental health issues.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph17072533","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,8]],"date-time":"2020-04-08T05:59:47Z","timestamp":1586325587000},"page":"2533","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Distress Due to Urinary Problems and Psychosocial Correlates among Retired Men in Hong Kong"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6676-8886","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Marcus Yu Lung","family":"Chiu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Ave, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ho Ting","family":"Wong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Health Care Management, Department of Business Management, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7892-2994","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xue","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong, China"},{"name":"The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen 518172, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1339","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1464-410X.2005.05831.x","article-title":"Lower urinary tract symptoms and male sexual dysfunction in Asia: A survey of ageing men from five Asian countries","volume":"96","author":"Li","year":"2015","journal-title":"BJU Int."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"25","DOI":"10.1016\/S0090-4295(01)01300-0","article-title":"Evaluation of symptoms and quality of life in men with benign prostatic pyperplasia","volume":"58","author":"Barry","year":"2001","journal-title":"Urology"},{"key":"ref_3","first-page":"260","article-title":"Sexual dysfunction in aging men with lower urinary tract symptoms","volume":"5","author":"Mehraban","year":"2008","journal-title":"Urol. 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