Continence efficacy intervention program for community residing women withstress urinary incontinence in Japan

Many women in Japan have lived with urinary incontinence (UI). These women are not willing to visit the hospital with their problem of incontinence. E ven if the women consent to a hospital visit, continence education is often very limited and patients may immediately stop looking for further treatme nt. Programs of effective education are needed. The Continence Efficacy Int ervention Program (CEIP) was developed for patients and was designed to cir cumvent many of the obstacles common to stopping exercise. In this study, a randomized trial was conducted to compare the effectivenes s of this program to conventional intervention on exercise continuity. This report describes the study design, intervention program, and outcomes. Sub jects were 48 women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI): the mean age wa s 53.5, the mean weight was 56.6 kg, and the average prevalent year was 6.5 years. The CEIP phone interviews improved exercise continuity and urine loss sympt om. Findings suggest that this intervention program is effective and readil y available to the community-residing women with SUI.