Structured behavioral treatment research protocol for women with mixed urinary incontinence and overactive bladder symptoms.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

The primary aim is to provide detailed rationale and methodology for the development and implementation of a perioperative behavioral/pelvic floor exercise research protocol for women who self-chose surgical intervention and who may or may not have been offered behavioral treatments initially. This protocol is part of the ESTEEM trial (Effects of Surgical Treatment Enhanced with Exercise for Mixed Urinary Incontinence Trial) which was designed to determine the effect of a combined surgical and perioperative behavioral/pelvic floor exercise intervention versus surgery alone on improving mixed urinary incontinence (MUI) and overactive bladder (OAB) symptoms.

Methods

As part of a multi-site, prospective, randomized trial of women with MUI electing midurethral sling (MUS) s

SUBMITTER: Newman DK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5907803 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature