Homeopathic medicines for involuntary urination in old aged people
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: R32- Unspecified urinary incontinence
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2022/04/041931
- Lead Sponsor
- D N De Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 60
a) Patients suffering from urinary incontinence
(ICD-10 code R32 in geriatric people) since
last 3 months
b) Leakage of urine with or without control
c) Age 60 – 75 years
d) Patients of either sex
e) Literate patients; ability to read English
and/or Bengali
f) Providing written informed consent
a) Patients having neurological conditions, such
as known multiple sclerosis, clinically
significant peripheral neuropathy or spinal
cord injury.
b) Patient who has been dealing with urinary
symptoms with several modern medication in the
past one month or any plan to have surgical
treatment during the study.
c) Participants will be excluded if they had
uterine prolapsed grade 3 or 4, vesicovaginal
fistula; and any severe cardio-vascular
diseases, uncontrolled diabetics.
d) Patient will be excluded if they had urinary
tract infections (UTI), in urine microscopy -
the presence above of 10 leukocytes/mm3 of
uncentrifuged urine or 10 leukocytes/hpf of the
centrifuged sample, in a clinically suspected
UTI.Patient with serum prostate specific
antigen (PSA) > 10 nmol/ml.
e) Vulnerable population – unconscious, too sick
for consultation or ambulatory, differently
abled, terminally ill patients, mentally
incompetent people etc.
f) Diagnosed cases of unstable mental or
psychiatric illness or other uncontrolled
or life-threatening illness affecting quality
of life or any organ failure.
g) Self-reported immune-compromised state, and
already undergoing homoeopathic treatment for
chronic disease within last 4 weeks.
h) Patient under tobacco chewing and/or smoking,
alcoholism and/or any other form(s) of
substance abuse and/or dependence.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire-Urinary <br/ ><br>Incontinence Short Form (ICIQ-UI-SF) for incontinence of geriatric people.Timepoint: At baseline, every month, up to 6 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Quality of Life Scale (QOLS)Timepoint: At baseline, every month, up to 6 months