This study reports on long-term follow-up of a RCT of Tät®II mobile app in 123 women ≥18 years old (102/83% completers) with UUI or MUI, who reported ≥2 leakages per week. All participants, regardless of their original allocation to intervention or control, had received the intervention, a treatment app, at the long-term follow-up. The primary outcome was a change in incontinence symptoms (International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire (ICIQ)−Urinary Incontinence Short Form (ICIQ-UI SF)), from baseline to follow-up. Other outcomes were urgency symptoms (ICIQ−Overactive Bladder Module (ICIQ-OAB)), quality of life (ICIQ−Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Quality of Life Module (ICIQ-LUTSqol)), and improvement (Patient’s Global Impression of Improvement (PGI-I)). The Incontinence Catastrophizing (IC) Scale (0-21 points) was used to assess the participant’s tendency to catastrophize over their incontinence. It was adapted from the validated Pain Catastrophizing Scale (short version) and contains 7 items covering fear of leakage and urgency.
The ICIQ-UI SF mean score improved from 11.5 to 7.6, the ICIQ-OAB improved from 6.7 to 5.5, the ICIQ-LUTSqol improved from 38.0 to 30.9 and the IC score improved from 4.8 to 2.5. The difference between baseline and the long-term follow-up score was statistically significant for all outcomes. There were no significant differences in any scores between the short-term and long-term follow-up. The improvement at the short-term follow-up was sustained at the long-term follow-up for all outcomes.
Presented by: Towe Wadensten, Family Medicine, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
Written by: Diane Newman, DNP, CRNP, FAAN, BCB-PMD, Urologic Nurse Practitioner, Adjunct Professor of Urology in Surgery, Senior Research Investigator, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania during the International Continence Society Annual Meeting, September 7-10, 2022, Vienna, Austria.
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