Habit training versus habit training with direct visual biofeedback in adults with chronic constipation: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Constipation affects up to 20% of adults. Chronic constipation (CC) affects 1-2% of adults. Patient dissatisfaction is high; nearly 80% feel that laxative therapy is unsatisfactory and symptoms have significant impact on quality of life. There is uncertainty about the value of specialist investigations and whether equipment-intensive therapies using biofeedback confer additional benefit when compared with specialist conservative advice.

Methods/design

A three-arm, parallel-group, multicentre randomised controlled trial.

Objectives

to determine whether standardised specialist-led habit training plus pelvic floor retraining using computerised biofeedback is more clinically effective than standardised specialist-led habit training alone; to determine whether o

SUBMITTER: Norton C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5366116 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature