Enhancing Conservative Treatment for Urge Incontinence

Completed 166 enrolled US Department of Veterans Affairs

RandomizedParallel-groupOpen-labelTreatment

Summary

The primary objective of this project is to evaluate whether enhancing drug therapy with components of behavioral training, including pelvic floor muscle rehabilitation, results in better outcomes than drug therapy alone for urge incontinence in community-dwelling women.

Timeline

Start: 2003-09
Primary completion: 2008-11
Completion: 2009-12

Publications

Results Burgio KL, Goode PS, Richter HE, Markland AD, Johnson TM 2nd, Redden DT. Combined behavioral and individualized drug therapy versus individualized drug therapy alone for urge urinary incontinence in women. J Urol. 2010 Aug;184(2):598-603. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2010.03.141. Epub 2010 Jun 19.
Funada S, Yoshioka T, Luo Y, Sato A, Akamatsu S, Watanabe N. Bladder training for treating overactive bladder in adults. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2023 Oct 9;10(10):CD013571. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013571.pub2.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Background	Oxybutynin	Small molecule	—	—

Indications

No indication recorded.