The effects of involving a nurse practitioner in primary care for adult patients with urinary incontinence.
Completed
- Conditions
- urinary incontinence
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 350
Inclusion Criteria
All consecutive patients consulting their GP within 1 year for symptoms and signs of stress, urge and mixed urinary incontinence (according to the guidelines of the Dutch College of General Practitioners on urinary incontinence are eligible for the study .
Exclusion Criteria
1. Excluded will be patients below 18;
2. Women with prolaps degree III or more;
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Severity of involuntary loss of urine: <br /><br>measured by the self-completed condition specific International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire Short Form (ICIQ-SF) which measures frequency, volume and impact on daily life of involuntary urine loss (see supplement for questions and scoring). <br />The outcome is a sum score of the first two weighted items and the VAS score of impact on daily life. <br />The questionnaire underwent extensive psychometric testing. It is expected that the International <br />Consultation on Incontinence (ICI) will rate this questionnaire as Grade A, meaning highly recommendable; <br /><br>2. Medical costs (the use of diagnostics, treatment and incontinence pads) and non-medical costs (productivity costs, time costs and travel costs): collected using both registration systems and cost diaries during four weeks.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method