Pilot Study - Patient Education and Pelvic Strength Exercises in Elderly Women With Incontinence.

University College of Northern Denmark

Status: Completed

Conditions: Urinary Incontinence

Treatments: Behavioral: Exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03862326

N-20160049

Details and patient eligibility

About

It will be investigate if women with a diaper grant in Aalborg Municipality can reduce diaper size and thus costs for diapers in the municipality through meetings with a incontinence nurse and pelvic floor exercises.

Full description

Incontinence is a world wide challenge especially in elderly women. The participation in pelvic floor exercises can to some extent help women with urinary incontinency. In the Municipality of Aalborg in Denmark, the citizens can get a diaper grant, if they are incontinence. The project will be recruiting women with diaper grants and randomly allocate the women to 3 different groups 1) Group training (usual care), 2) Individual training and 3) Individual training with biofeedback in the form of ultrasound. All groups will receive the same incontinence education from the incontinence nurses and physiotherapists. The Women will be offered 6 individual or 10 group base trainings, with increased time between trainings, to increase the participants independency and rely more on home based exercises.

Enrollment: 46 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Diaper grant

• Urinary incontinency Living in own home in Aalborg Municipality

Exclusion criteria

• Dementia Inability to transport herself to the training facility neurological diseases inability to understand Danish or bring a translator

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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46 participants in 3 patient groups

Group Training

Other group

Description:

Group Training of the women with incontinence - with 5-8 women in each group. This is also Usual Care

Treatment:

Behavioral: Exercise

Individual training

Experimental group

Description:

Individual pelvic floor exercises one-to-one with the physiotherapist

Treatment:

Behavioral: Exercise

Individual training with biofeedback

Experimental group

Description:

Individual pelvic floor exercises one-to-one with the physiotherapist but with ultrasound used as biofeedback, and to check if the women are contracting the right muscles.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Exercise