Women Urinary Incontinence Prevalence Study (WUIPS)
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: No intervention.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Female Urinary Incontinence. Basic parameters: 40 years — 65 years · Female.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Italy
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Female Urinary Incontinence in Middle-aged Women in Four Hospitals in Northern Italy: a Multicenter Prevalence Study
Overview
The goal of this multicenter prospective and prevalence observational study is to punctually investigate and describe prevalence, predictors, quality of life and costs of Urinary Incontinence (UI) among female patients, female caregivers and female personnel in four hospitals in Northern Italy: San Raffaele hospital in Milan, San Raffaele Turro hospital in Milan, Zingonia Policlinico San Marco (BG) and Policlinico San Pietro in Ponte San Pietro (BG).
Detailed description
EXPECTED RESULTS
The collection of data and information through this study will aim to:
1. Understand the percentage of middle-aged women with UI. 2. Describe the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of women with UI. 3. Identify UI predictors. 4. Describe the quality of life, social impact and costs of women with UI.
Interventions
- Other No intervention
No intervention (observational study)
Primary outcome measures
- Prevalence of middle-aged women with urinary incontinence [Time frame: by December 2025]
Secondary outcome measures (4)
- Predictors of urinary incontinence in middle-aged women [Time frame: by December 2025]
- Quality of life of middle-aged women with urinary incontinence [Time frame: by December 2025]
- Social impact of middle-aged women with urinary incontinence [Time frame: by December 2025]
- Costs of urinary incontinence for middle-aged women [Time frame: by December 2025]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Female sex
- Middle age (40-65 years old)
- Informed consent signed
- Comprehension of written and spoken Italian language
- Female outpatients intended for any hospital unit (outpatient clinic, day surgery and day hospital patients included) and every female caregiver respecting the previous inclusion criteria, recruited at the central admission and at the private admission of the four hospitals involved
- Female workers (healthcare professionals and administrative personnel) of the four hospitals
Exclusion criteria
- Male sex
- Young age (< 40 years) and older age (> 65 years)
- Pregnant women
- Puerperium women (up to 40 days post-partum)
- Women who had undergone urinary and gynecology surgery
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Observational model
- Other
Study locations
Italy · 4 centers
- Policlinico San Marco Zingonia — Osio Sotto
- Policlinico San Pietro Ponte San Pietro — Bergamo
- San Raffaele Turro Hospital (MI) — Milan
- San Raffaele Hospital (MI) — Milan
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06291441 · WUIPS