Cost-effectiveness of an app-based treatment for urinary incontinence in comparison with care-as-usual in Dutch general practice: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial over 12 months.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the cost-effectiveness of app-based treatment for female stress, urgency or mixed urinary incontinence (UI) compared with care-as-usual in Dutch primary care.

Design

A pragmatic, randomised controlled, superiority trial.

Setting

Primary care in the Netherlands from 2015 to 2018, follow-up at 12 months.

Population

Women with ≥2 UI-episodes per week, access to mobile apps, wanting treatment.

Methods

The standalone app included conservative management for UI with motivation aids (e.g. reminders). Care-as-usual delivered according to the Dutch GP guideline for UI.

Main outcome measures

Costs and cost-effectiveness and -utility were assessed from a societal perspective, based on incontinence impact adjusted life years (IIALYs), qual

SUBMITTER: Loohuis AMM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9545277 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature