Hypnotherapy or medications: a randomized noninferiority trial in urgency urinary incontinent women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Urgency urinary incontinence afflicts many adults, and most commonly affects women. Medications, a standard treatment, may be poorly tolerated, with poor adherence. This warrants investigation of alternative interventions. Mind-body therapies such as hypnotherapy may offer additional treatment options for individuals with urgency urinary incontinence.

Objective

To evaluate hypnotherapy's efficacy compared to medications in treating women with urgency urinary incontinence.

Materials and methods

This investigator-masked, noninferiority trial compared hypnotherapy to medications at an academic center in the southwestern United States, and randomized women with non-neurogenic urgency urinary incontinence to weekly hypnotherapy sessions for 2 months (and continu

SUBMITTER: Komesu YM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6995419 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature