Continence Across Continents to Upend Stigma and Dependency

Summary

To determine whether women exposed to the continence promotion intervention will report improved urinary symptoms and quality of life, and lower incontinence-related stigma and falls than women who receive a control intervention at one-year post-intervention.

Conditions

• Urinary Incontinence
• Falls, Accidental
• Quality of Life
• Stigma

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Continence promotion group education workshop

Interactive group education workshop promoting continence

BEHAVIORAL

Sham health lecture

Interactive group education workshop about general health

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Medical Research Council

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Institut national de prevention et d'education pour la sante

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Geriatrie de Montreal

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Cara Tannenbaum, MD. MSc · Univeristé de Montréal

• Adrian Wagg, MD · University of Alberta

• Eleanor van den Heuvel, PhD · Brunel University

• Xavier Fritel, MD, PhD · University of Poitiers

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

TRIPLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

65 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2013-05-31

Primary Completion

2017-07-31

Completion

2017-07-31

Countries

• Canada
• France
• United Kingdom

Study Locations