Health Condition 1: R32- Unspecified urinary incontinence
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention1: Individualized Homoeopathic Medicines: This group will be provided with homoeopathic remedies along with concomitant care. Individualized homoeopathic medicines will be administered in
Sponsors
D N De Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Patients suffering from urinary incontinence. ICD-11 code MF50.2 Urinary incontinence. Leakage of urine with or without control. 2.Age 60 ? 75 years. 3.Participants of either sex or transgender. 4.Literate patients ability to read English, Hindi and or Bengali. Illiterate patient will be interviewed by the investigators maintaining adequate privacy to fill up the scales questionnaires.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1.Not willing to provide with written informed consent of voluntary participation. 2.Patients having neurological conditions, such as known multiple sclerosis, clinically significant peripheral neuropathy or spinal cord injury. 3.Patient who has been dealing with urinary symptoms with several modern medication in the past one month or any plan to have surgical treatment during the study. 4.Participants will be excluded if they had uterine prolapsed grade 3 or 4, vesicovaginal fistula; and any severe cardio-vascular diseases, uncontrolled diabetics. 5.Patient will be excluded if they had urinary tract infections, in urine microscopy - the presence above of 10 leukocytes per mm3 of uncentrifuged urine or 10 leukocytes per hpf of the centrifuged sample, in a clinically suspected UTI. Patients with haematuria recurrent and persistent, proteinuria. 6.Patients with BHP who require intervention beyond conservative management.e.g., surgical or invasive procedures. Patient with serum prostate specific antigen, PSA more than 10 nmol per ml. 7.Vulnerable population ? unconscious, too sick for consultation or ambulatory, differently abled, terminally ill patients, mentally incompetent people etc. 8.Diagnosed cases of unstable mental or psychiatric illness or other uncontrolled or life-threatening illness affecting quality of life or any organ failure. 9.Self-reported immune-compromised state, and already undergoing homoeopathic treatment for chronic disease within last 4 weeks. 10.Patient under tobacco chewing and or smoking, alcoholism and or any other forms of substance abuse and or dependence.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire-Urinary Incontinence Short Form (ICIQ-UI-SF)Timepoint: Baseline, and every month , upto 6 months | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Quality of Life Assessment Questionnaire Concerning Urinary Incontinence (Contilife)Timepoint: Baseline, and every month, up to 6 months | — |
Countries
India
Contacts
Public ContactDr Saima Shamim
D N De Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital
Outcome results
None listed