Urinary Incontinence Self-Screening for Healthy Aging
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 53
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Self-Referral Questionnaire
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of this study is to increase awareness and timely treatment of urinary incontinence through a self-screening process. This is a 3 month study involving 2 activities; one taking place at the beginning of study and another 3 months later. Participants will be randomized into experimental and control groups. The experimental group will receive a demographic questionnaire, quality of life questionnaire, a questionnaire pertaining to urinary symptoms, information about how to self-screen for urinary incontinence and information regarding how to refer oneself to urinary incontinence resources. The control group will receive the demographic and quality of life questionnaires only. It is estimated that it will take participants 20-30 minutes to complete their package of questionnaires. After 3 months, the participants will receive a phone call inquiring into what actions they have taken regarding their urinary incontinence.
详细描述
Objectives: The overall aim is to increase awareness of urinary incontinence in community-based older adults and promote timely treatment. To achieve this aim the project objectives will include:
- To develop a self-screening process for community-based older adults
- To test the use of a self-screening process with community-based older adults
Methods:
Study Design: This study will use a pilot randomized control trial to test the effectiveness of a self-screening process with older adults. The hypothesis is that older adults exposed to the self-screening process will follow up with health professionals to receive help for the UI condition. There will be two groups of older adults. The intervention group will participate in self-screening and the control will not be exposed to self-screening. Using this approach is necessary to determine whether or not the self-screening works.
Setting: Senior's Centers and organizations dedicated to seniors in Kelowna, West Kelowna and Lake Country will serve as the recruitment sites for this study. These Senior's Centers/organizations (e.g., Lake Country Seniors Centre, Lake Country Health Planning Society, Westside Health Network, Seniors Outreach Bureau) serve large and different populations of seniors (>300 seniors) so overlap in membership is not expected to be an issue. Excel randomization function will be used to assign participants to one of the two arms (the arm receiving the self-screening process or the arm not receiving this process). The randomization assignments (allocations) will be placed in individual sealed envelopes. After informed consent is obtained, the Research Assistant (RA) will choose the next available envelope to reveal which arm the study participant will be assigned.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Screening
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 65 Years 至 —（Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Adults 65 years of age and older
- •Attend a local Senior's Centre or organization
- •Report having some UI symptoms
- •Living independently
- •Ambulatory
- •No more than mild cognitive impairment
- •Able to read and write in English or have someone who can assist with reading the data collection information and can complete a paper survey independently
排除标准
- •Cognitive impairment
- •Require more than minimal assistance with completing the survey
- •Any impairment (e.g., vision) that would make self-screening and follow up challenging.
- •Have been referred to a UI specialist or continence program in the past
结局指标
主要结局
Self-Referral Questionnaire
时间窗: 3 months
The primary outcome will be the number of older adults who take action to receive help for their UI. The following question will be asked through a questionnaire at three month follow-up: "During the past three months, what have you done about the leakage?" Participants will have the option to check off any of the following options: "I haven't done anything about it", "have seen my GP about it", and "referred myself to the local Urinary Incontinence Clinic".
次要结局
- Treatments Received Questionnaire(3 months)
- Satisfaction with Care Questionnaire(3 months)
研究者
Kathy Rush
Associate Professor
University of British Columbia