Clinical trial NCT00880880: Improving Women's Health by Using an Electronic Pelvic Floor Questionnaire
Official title: Improving the Assessment of Women's Health Through the Use of a Computerized Pelvic Floor Questionnaire
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Urinary Incontinence
Fecal Incontinence
Pelvic Floor Disorders
Keywords: urinary incontinence
fecal incontinence
communication
Lead sponsor: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Sigma Xi Society
name: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
First posted: 2009-04-14
Enrollment: 284
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 40
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: The overall goal of this study is to test whether an electronic pelvic floor questionnaire (e-PAQ-PF) will increase discussion rates of incontinence in a primary care setting.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Woman
* Aged 40 and older
* Scheduled for a well visit at the Women's Health Internal Medicine West Clinic

Exclusion Criteria:

* Unable to speak English
* Unable to fill out questionnaire
* Excluded by patient's clinician prior to recruitment

Primary outcomes:
measure: Mention of urinary incontinence in the clinic visit note
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Mention of fecal incontinence in the clinic visit note
measure: Participant report of urinary discussion
timeFrame: same day (within one week of appointment)
measure: Participant report of fecal incontinence discussion
timeFrame: same day (within one week of appointment)
measure: MD/NP initiated urinary incontinence discussion (per participant report)
measure: MD/NP initiate discussion of Fecal incontinence per participant report
measure: Urinary Incontinence History Score (Assessed from Clinic Note)
measure: Fecal Incontinence History Score (Assessed from Clinic Note)
measure: Urinary Incontinence Assessment and Treatment Score (from Clinic Note)
measure: Fecal Incontinence Assessment & Treatment Score (from Clinic Note)
measure: Any Urinary Incontinence Treatment or Referral (per clinic note)
measure: Any treatment or referral for fecal incontinence? (per clinic note)
measure: Diagnostic code given - Urinary incontinence
measure: Diagnostic code given - fecal incontinence
measure: Urinary incontinence detected
timeFrame: clinic visit
measure: fecal incontinence detected
timeFrame: clinic visit
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Madison
country: United States
facility: UW Health Women's Health Internal Medicine West
state: Wisconsin
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health
name: Chris M Schussler-Fiorenza, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: University of Wisconsin, Madison
name: Ronald E Gangnon, PhD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health
name: Arnold Wald, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Schussler-Fiorenza Rose SM, Gangnon RE, Chewning B, Wald A. Increasing Discussion Rates of Incontinence in Primary Care: A Randomized Controlled Trial. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2015 Nov;24(11):940-9. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2015.5230.