Small-Group, Community-Member Intervention for Urinary and Bowel Incontinence: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the effects of Mind Over Matter: Healthy Bowels, Healthy Bladder, a small-group intervention, on urinary and bowel incontinence symptoms among older women with incontinence.

Methods

In this individually randomized group treatment trial, women aged 50 years and older with urinary, bowel incontinence, or both, were randomly allocated at baseline to participate in Mind Over Matter: Healthy Bowels, Healthy Bladder immediately (treatment group) or after final data collection (waitlist control group). The primary outcome was urinary incontinence (UI) improvement on the Patient Global Impression of Improvement at 4 months. Validated instruments assessed incontinence, self-efficacy, depression, and barriers to care-seeking. Intent-to-treat analyses compared dif

SUBMITTER: Brown HW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6732187 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature