The "Aberdeen Home Continence Stress Test": a novel objective assessment tool for female stress urinary incontinence.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction and hypothesis

Clinical trials for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) require a robust, reliable, and responsive tool for objective assessment of SUI post-intervention. The Aberdeen Home Continence Stress Test (HCST) is a novel patient-reported objective assessment tool, aimed to be patient-friendly and reduce attrition rates by avoiding hospital appointments and prolonged pad-wearing. We aim to describe the HCST for the first time and evaluate its reliability, diagnostic accuracy, and response to change.

Methods

A secondary analysis of the Single-Incision Mini-Slings (SIMS) study (a prospective multicentre randomised control trial (RCT) comparing two surgical treatments of SUI was performed. In SIMS (n = 600 women), the objective outcome was assessed by the 24-h

SUBMITTER: Young C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10415466 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature