Continence Across Continents to Upend Stigma and Dependency (CACTUS-D)

University Institute of Geriatrics of Montreal (IUGM)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Falls, Accidental; Quality of Life; Stigma; Urinary Incontinence

Treatments: Behavioral: Sham health lecture; Behavioral: Continence promotion group education workshop

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01858493

ERA-AGE2 dossier28835

Details and patient eligibility

About

To determine whether women exposed to the continence promotion intervention will report improved urinary symptoms and quality of life, and lower incontinence-related stigma and falls than women who receive a control intervention at one-year post-intervention.

Full description

This is a cluster-randomized 4-site intervention study testing the effect of a continence-promotion intervention on:

1. Improved urinary symptoms and quality of life
2. Reduction in falls
3. Reduction in stigma

A cost-effectiveness component will also be included

Enrollment: 910 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Women
• 65 years and older
• Urinary incontinence at least once weekly

Exclusion criteria

• Living in residential or long-term care
• Received treatment for incontinence within the past year
• Dementia or other neurological conditions that preclude the ability to provide -Informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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910 participants in 2 patient groups

Continence promotion group education

Experimental group

Description:

A single 1-hour continence promotion group education workshop, facilitated by the research coordinator, aimed at changing knowledge and beliefs about urinary incontinence and different treatment options. An evidence-based self-management tool will be distributed at the end of the workshop.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Continence promotion group education workshop

Sham health lecture

Sham Comparator group

Description:

A single 1-hour group education workshop on other health topics of concern to older women such as memory, hearing, insomnia

Treatment:

Behavioral: Sham health lecture