Overactive Bladder Syndrome
Conditions
Keywords
Intravaginal electrical stimulation, Parasacral transcutaneous electrical stimulation
Brief summary
This experiment is expected to understand the benefits of different settings of electrical stimulation in the treatment of overactive bladder.
Detailed description
This experiment is expected to understand the benefits of different settings of electrical stimulation in the treatment of overactive bladder.The study will adopt a longitudinal research design with randomized quasi-experimental trial.The patients will recruited and be randomly assigned to Group A (Parasacral transcutaneous electrical stimulation) or Group B (Intravaginal electrical stimulation). There will be 30 participants in each group. Data will be collected 2 times.
Interventions
Asymmetrical biphasic square current pulse Frequency：10 Hz pulse width：1.0 ms Intensity：highest tolerable intensity(≦80 mA.) Parasacral transcutaneous electrical stimulation：Clinic using 2 superficial 3.5 cm electrodes placed on each side of S3 and S4.
DEVICEIntravaginal electrical stimulation
Asymmetrical biphasic square current pulse Frequency：10 Hz pulse width：1.0 ms Intensity：highest tolerable intensity(≦80 mA.) Intravaginal electrical stimulation：The electrode plug for vaginal plug was cylinder-formed with ring-formed placed into vaginal.
Sponsors
Chung Shan Medical University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Subject)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
20 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Urinary incontinence due to detrusor overactivity * No patients had been taking anticholinergics or tricyclic depressants and none had been treated by pelvic floor exercise, bladder training, or pelvic surgery before entry into the study.
Exclusion criteria
* stress incontinence * urinary tract infection * neurological disease * genital prolapse higher than stage II on POP-Q system * pregnancy * diabetes mellitus * a history of anti-incontinence surgery and/or prolapse repair * pelvic tumors and previously treated with radiation therapy or antimuscarinic agents * patients who were not cooperative * electrical stimulation contraindications
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Days Voiding diary | 3 days | This chart is a record of your voiding and leakage or urine. Choose three (3) separate 24 hour periods to complete this record. Pick days which will be most convenient for you to measure every void. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Overactive Bladder Symptom Score( OABSS） | 20 min | This is a single symptom score that employs a self-report questionnaire to quantify OAB symptoms.Questionnaire has many items with the same minimum and maximum score.Four question items, daytime frequency, nocturia, urgency and urgency incontinence, were included in the questionnaire according to the definition of OAB. |
| minVisual analogue scale (VAS) for urgency | 10 min | The Visual Analog or Analogue Scale (VAS) is designed to present to the respondent a rating scale with minimum constraints. Respondents mark the location on the 10-centimeter line corresponding to the amount of urgency they experienced. This gives them the greatest freedom to choose their urgency intensity. It also gives the maximum opportunity for each respondent to express a personal response style. VAS data of this type is recorded as the number of millimeters from the left of the line with the range 0-100. |
| Pad test | 20min-1hr | To measure leakage and may be performed in the specialist's office or at home. Pad testing can be done over a period of time as short as twenty minutes or up to one hour. |
Countries
Taiwan
Contacts
Primary ContactChen Gin-Den, PhD
Backup ContactChen Yi-Ching, MS
Outcome results
None listed