NCT01829425

Brain-Centered Therapy Versus Medication for Urgency Urinary Incontinence : Hypnotherapy Or Pharmacotherapy

Protocol for Brain-Centered Therapy Versus Medication for Urgency Urinary Incontinence An RCT: Hypnotherapy Or Pharmacotherapy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 165 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of New Mexico · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study is randomized controlled trial in which urgency incontinent women (approximately 150-160) will be randomized to hypnotherapy or pharmacotherapy and evaluated at months 2, 6 \&12 Hypotheses: Among patients with urgency urinary incontinence (UUI), hypnotherapy will be non-inferior pharmacotherapy in diminishing UUI episodes. Hypnotherapy may be superior or may not differ from pharmacotherapy in diminishing symptoms or quality of life based on validated questionnaires and/or other diary parameters.

Detailed description

Study Objectives Primary: To compare change in Urgency Urinary Incontinence (UUI) episodes at 2 month follow-up on voiding diaries between hypnotherapy and pharmacotherapy groups (to determine whether hypnotherapy is at least as effective and durable in treating UUI as pharmacotherapy) Secondary Analyses: * To determine whether hypnotherapy is at least as effective in treating UUI as pharmacotherapy comparing change in UUI episodes on voiding diary at 6 and 12 month follow-up * To determine whether hypnotherapy differs from pharmacotherapy in treating UUI comparing change in questionnaire results and urinary frequency * enrolled following administration of the Overactive Bladder (OAB) Awareness tool. Participants will keep voiding diaries then be randomized to either pharmacotherapy and conventional behavioral therapy or hypnotherapy and conventional behavioral therapy. Approximately 150-160 women will be randomized. Randomization will occur using a computer-generated randomization scheme in varying permuted block sizes. Study personnel performing data entry will be masked to participants' treatment. Masking participants to treatment is not feasible. Participants will be followed at 2,6 \& 12 months. Measurements will be performed before treatment, following completion of treatment visits (approximately 8 weeks), and at 6 and 12 months. Primary analysis will be intention to treat. Exploratory analyses of secondary outcomes will also be performed. Study Visits: UUI participant screening: Study information given. Screening questionnaire given. Visit 1 Enrollment: Formal screening for eligibility, voiding diary reviewed, if eligible, written consent obtained with administration of study questionnaires, demographic and past medical history administration forms, Pelvic Organ Prolapse Quantitation (POP-Q) exam \& hypnotic susceptibility testing scheduled. Pariticipants undergo hypnotic susceptibility testing prior to randomization. Participants randomized to treatment and contacted, treatments arranged. Hypnotherapy group: undergo weekly treatments over 8 weeks. Pharmacotherapy group: weekly counseling sessions over 8 week: Following hypnotherapy or medication counseling completion, f/u voiding diaries collected \& study questionnaires administered. One of two long acting anti-cholinergic medications offered (Long acting Tolterodine or Extended Release Oxybutynin or equivalent generic substitutes). 6 \& 12 month follow-up: Pharmacotherapy subjects receive medications for 1 year and Hypnotherapy subjects encouraged to continue self-hypnosis for 1 year with assistance of audio-recordings, with 1 optional hypnotherapy session between 6-12 months.. Participants informed pharmacotherapy \& hypnotherapy sessions are audio-recorded and reviewed ensuring manual of procedures are followed.

Conditions

• Urinary Incontinence, Urge

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Anticholinergic medications	The study will use either of two standard, long acting anti-cholinergic medications and dosages. Pharmacotherapy counseling sessions will also be administered over 8 weeks by trained research personnel. Pharmacotherapy counseling sessions will be audio-recorded and one or more sessions will be reviewed by study personnel to ensure that the medication counselor administers the sessions in a standardized fashion. Pill counts will be performed at the conclusion of the 8 weeks of pharmacotherapy counseling. Subjects will be provided the medication for 1 year.
BEHAVIORAL	Hypnotherapy	Hypnotherapy will be administered approximately weekly over 8 weeks by certified, trained clinical hypnotherapists. Sessions will be audio-recorded and one or more sessions will be reviewed by study personnel to ensure that the hypnotherapist administers the hypnotherapy session in a standardized fashion.Subjects will receive or download a digital recording specially prepared for them to for home practice of hypnotherapy sessions.Following the 8 weeks of therapy, subjects will be encouraged to continue to practice self-hypnosis and/or listen to their home practice digital recording and this practice will be tracked for the 1 year duration of the study.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-04-22
• Primary completion: 2017-10-27
• Completion: 2017-10-27
• First posted: 2013-04-11
• Last updated: 2019-04-23
• Results posted: 2019-04-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States