Self-management Pessary Project

Overview

The goal of this multicenter observational study is to study self-management of pessary therapy in patients with pelvic organ prolapse. The primary question it aims to answer is: • how many patients succeed learning self-management if offered a standardized training? Secondary outcomes are: * how many patients are willing to learn self-management? * what patient factors contribute to successfully learning self-management and willingness to self-manage? * how satisfied are patients with pessary therapy and self-management? * the occurrence of side-effects * continuation and quitting of pessary therapy and self-management * cross-over to surgery * number of visits to doctor because of pessary therapy * healthcare costs Participants will be asked to fill in questionnaires three times during the study (upon inclusion, 6 weeks and 12 months after starting self-management or after starting pessary therapy with a correctly fitting pessary). Researchers will compare the self-managing patient to the non-self-managing patients.

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