The Effectiveness of a Stress Incontinence Care Protocol (SICP)

Kırıkkale University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nursing; Stress Incontinence, Female

Treatments: Behavioral: intervention group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03866356

KU

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study seeks to contribute to nursing practices by developing and stress incontinence care protocol with the help of the Star model and implementing this care protocol for the purpose of standardizing patient care outcomes.

Full description

To identify the effectiveness of a care protocol developed using the Star model on outcomes in female patients with stress incontinence.

Information and evidence needs to be translated into nursing practice and applied to clinical decision-making in stress incontinence cases. Evidence-based study models such as the Star model provide guidance on using evidence to develop clinical guidelines and care protocols. The Star model is designed to improve patient outcomes by creating a bridge between research and clinical practice. There is currently no published stress incontinence care protocol based on the Star model. Although there is one published study of a care protocol for urinary incontinence, this protocol was not drawn up on the basis of an evidence-based model.

Women that matched the sample criteria were recruited into the study. After their consent was obtained, the women were randomized into an intervention and a control group. The women in the intervention group were provided care according to stress incontinence care protocol. The control group received no intervention during the eight-week intervention period.

Enrollment: 68 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The inclusion criteria were being female, ≥ 18 years, having an initial diagnosis of SI, being literate, having no sensory disorder affecting communication, and agreeing to participate in the research

Exclusion criteria

• The exclusion criteria were pregnancy, presence of a urinary tract infection and previous treatment for SI. The removal criteria were patient non-compliance with the protocol, failure in contacting the patient and the patient's wish to withdraw from the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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68 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention group received care according to the SICP (Table 2). One of the researchers gave each participant one-on-one education in line with SICP. They were also provided with the booklet that had been prepared in accordance with SICP. The participants were phoned every week for eight weeks and offered counseling within the scope of SICP and then were reevaluated at the end of eight weeks (Post-intervention). The participants were followed from the eighth to the twelfth week without any intervention (4-week post-intervention).

Treatment:

Behavioral: intervention group

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group received no intervention during the eight-week intervention period. The control group received standard care. The women were given no educational materials.