NCT00883220

Self Management in Urinary Catheter Users

Self-management of Urine Flow in Long-term Urinary Catheter Users

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 202 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Rochester · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Learning to self-manage urine flow may help people prevent or minimize persistent complications from long-term indwelling urethral or suprapubic catheters.

Detailed description

Urinary catheter users commonly experience adverse health effects, such as urinary tract infection (UTI), blockage, dislodgement, and leakage, leading to poor quality of life indicators. Catheter-related problems often require health care utilization resulting in increased health care costs. Self-management of urine flow is an essential part of self-care for people with long-term urinary catheters and may lead to prevention or reduction of catheter-related problems and improved quality of life.This study tests the effectiveness of a urinary catheter self-management intervention in a randomized trial of 220 patients, with 12 months of follow-up. The experimental intervention is designed to enhance self-management of urine flow in individuals with long-term urinary catheters, with the goal of decreasing catheter related complications and enhancing quality of life.

Conditions

• Urinary Retention
• Neurogenic Bladder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Self-management of urinary catheter	Awareness, self-monitoring, and self-management of urine flow are taught. Focus is on attaining adequate and consistent levels of fluid intake and preventing catheter dislodgement.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-06-01
• Primary completion: 2012-06-01
• Completion: 2012-06-01
• First posted: 2009-04-17
• Last updated: 2012-09-18

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States