After the Randomized Trial: Implementation of Community-Based Continence Promotion in the Real World.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

Most women aged 65 and older have incontinence, associated with high healthcare costs, institutionalization, and negative quality of life, but few seek care. Mind over Matter: Healthy Bowels, Healthy Bladder (MOM) is a small-group self-management workshop, led by a trained facilitator in a community setting, proven to improve incontinence in older women.

Design

We used mixed methods to gather information on the real-world adoption, maintenance, and implementation of MOM by community agencies following a randomized controlled trial (RCT) that tested intervention effects on incontinence.

Setting

Community agencies serving older adults in six Wisconsin communities.

Participants

Community agency administrators and facilitators trained to offer

SUBMITTER: Schmuhl NB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7857672 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature