Many women experience the accidental loss of urine called urge incontinence or overactive bladder (OAB) incontinence. Women describe this as a sudden, strong desire to pass urine which results in leakage before reaching the toilet. The current usual treatments for urge incontinence include behavioral treatment, physical therapy, and medicines. Although these treatments have been found to be effective in research studies, they are less effective over time in general practice. Because medicines have side effects, many women stop them. The purpose of this study is to explore different treatments that may provide another option for women with urge incontinence that might be effective. This is an initial study to see if these treatments are at least as effective as the usual treatments. Hypothesis: Does Mind Based Stress Reduction(MBSR)(meditation practices)reduce urinary urge incontinence episodes?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) was developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979. MBSR is a group-based intervention, typically provided to up to 30 participants, in a class-based format of eight weekly two hour sessions.
Emphasis will be placed on healthy alignment and ways to pace and adjust poses to make them safe and productive for the body.
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Pre-Post Leakage Episodes
The primary outcome for the study is the change from baseline in mean number of urge incontinent episodes from pre treatment to post-treatment measured using 3-day voiding diaries.
Time frame: 0 (Baseline) and 8 weeks
Quality of Life
Secondary Outcome Measures are a change from baseline in the Overactive Bladder Questionnaire (OABq-SF) scores and proportion of subjects reporting improvement from the Patient Global Impression of Improvement (PGI-I)).
Time frame: 0 (Baseline) and 8 weeks
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