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Long-term effect of community-based continence promotion on urinary symptoms, falls and healthy active life expectancy among older women: cluster randomised trial.


ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:The long-term effectiveness of group continence promotion delivered via community organisations on female urinary incontinence, falls and healthy life expectancy remains unknown. METHODS:A pragmatic cluster randomised trial was conducted among 909 women aged 65-98 years with urinary incontinence, recruited from 377 community organisations in the UK, Canada and France. A total of 184 organisations were randomised to an in-person 60-min incontinence self-management workshop (461 participants), and 193 to a control healthy ageing workshop (448 participants). The primary outcome was self-reported incontinence improvement at 1-year. Falls and gains in health utility were secondary outcomes. RESULTS:A total 751 women, mean age 78.0, age range 65-98 completed the trial (83%). At 1-year, 15% of the intervention group versus 6.9% of controls reported significant improvements in urinary symptoms, (difference 8.1%, 95% confidence intervals (CI) 4.0-12.1%, intracluster correlation 0.04, number-needed-to-treat 13) and 35% versus 19% reported any improvement (risk difference 16.0%, 95% CI 10.4-21.5, number-needed-to-treat 6). The proportion of fallers decreased from 42% to 36% in the intervention group (-8.0%, 95% CI -14.8 - -1.0) and from 44% to 34% in the control group (-10.3%, 95% CI -17.4 - -3.6), no difference between groups. Both intervention and control groups experienced a gain in health utility (0.022 points (95% CI 0.005-0.04) versus 0.035 (95% CI 0.017-0.052), respectively), with no significant difference between groups. CONCLUSION:Community-based group continence promotion achieves long-term benefits on older women's urinary symptoms, without improvement in falls or healthy life expectancy compared with participation in a healthy ageing workshop.

SUBMITTER: Tannenbaum C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6593322 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Long-term effect of community-based continence promotion on urinary symptoms, falls and healthy active life expectancy among older women: cluster randomised trial.

Tannenbaum Cara C   Fritel Xavier X   Halme Alex A   van den Heuvel Eleanor E   Jutai Jeffrey J   Wagg Adrian A  

Age and ageing 20190701 4


<h4>Background</h4>The long-term effectiveness of group continence promotion delivered via community organisations on female urinary incontinence, falls and healthy life expectancy remains unknown.<h4>Methods</h4>A pragmatic cluster randomised trial was conducted among 909 women aged 65-98 years with urinary incontinence, recruited from 377 community organisations in the UK, Canada and France. A total of 184 organisations were randomised to an in-person 60-min incontinence self-management worksh  ...[more]

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