Results
The 96 COVID-19 patients who were hospitalized between 15 May and 15 June 2020 at a tertiary center were collected retrospectively. After the exclusion criteria, 46 patients were consisted as the study population and all of the patients wanted to participate in the study. 27 female (58.6 %) and 19 male (41.4 %) COVID-19 patients answered the questions of socio-demographic forms and the IPSS or UPS after 17.2 ±3.5 days after being discharged from hospital. The socio-demographic data are shown in Table 1. The mean age of female and male patients was 32.3 ± 8.9 and 38.9 ± 13 years old, respectively.
In the male patients, while there were no statistically significant differences in the total IPSS, the voiding IPSS score, and quality of life between the three periods (p=0.148; p=0.933, p=0.079, respectively), the storage IPSS scores had a significant difference between the three periods (p=0.05 (Table 2).
In the female patients, low stream scores, which reflect obstructive symptoms, were similar between the three periods (p=0.368). The scores of stress incontinence and an overactive bladder had a significant difference between the three periods (p=0.05 and p=0.05). (Table 3).