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

NCT ID: NCT01829425

Last Updated: 2019-04-23

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

165 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2013-04-22

Study Completion Date

2017-10-27

Brief Summary

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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

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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

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Urinary Incontinence, Urge

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Investigators

Study Groups

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Anticholinergic medications

Either of two standard, long acting anti-cholinergic medications (Long acting Tolterodine or Extended Release Oxybutynin)will be given. Subjects receive 8 weeks of medication counseling in conjunction with the medications. Medications will be continued for 1 year.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Anticholinergic medications

Intervention Type DRUG

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.

Hypnotherapy

Subjects will receive approximately weekly hypnotherapy sessions over 8 weeks and will receive/download digital recordings for home practice. Subjects will be encouraged to practice self-hypnosis +/or listen to their recordings for 1 year.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Hypnotherapy

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

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.

Interventions

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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.

Intervention Type DRUG

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.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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Tolterodine (Detrol LA or equivalent generic) Oxybutynin (Ditropan Extended Release or equivalent generic)

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Non-pregnant English-speaking women
2. 18 yo or older
3. Overactive Bladder (OAB) Awareness scores ≥ 8
4. 3 UUI episodes/week for ≥ 3 months

Exclusion Criteria

1. Women with a history of neurologic diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, stroke, or dementia
2. History of schizophrenia or untreated bipolar disorder or current drug or alcohol dependence
3. Women who have taken anticholinergic medications for UUI within the last 3 weeks (women who have taken anti-cholinergics for UUI but discontinued them \> than 3 weeks ago may participate in the study) or have a sacral neuromodulator in place to treat UUI or have received Onabotulinum toxin A in the last 12 months to treat UUI
4. Contraindications to anticholinergic medications (untreated narrow angle glaucoma, significant urinary retention or gastric retention)
5. Pregnant women or lactating women, women who plan to become pregnant in the next year, or pre-menopausal women unwilling to use contraception if engaging in sexual relations during the year of study participation (hysterectomy is considered to be a form of contraception)
6. Untreated urinary tract infection
7. Prolapse which extends past the hymen (POP-Q points of ≥ 1+) which may be responsible for UUI symptoms
8. Women who cannot keep the majority of the study therapy appointments or those without reliable contact phone numbers or methods of communication with the study personnel.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of New Mexico

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Yuko Komesu

MD

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Yuko Komesu, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of New Mexcio Health Science Center

Locations

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University of New Mexico Health Science Center

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Komesu YM, Ketai LH, Mayer AR, Teshiba TM, Rogers RG. Functional MRI of the Brain in Women with Overactive Bladder: Brain Activation During Urinary Urgency. Female Pelvic Med Reconstr Surg. 2011;17(1):50-54. doi: 10.1097/SPV.0b013e3182065507.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 21399722 (View on PubMed)

Komesu YM, Sapien RE, Rogers RG, Ketai LH. Hypnotherapy for treatment of overactive bladder: a randomized controlled trial pilot study. Female Pelvic Med Reconstr Surg. 2011 Nov;17(6):308-13. doi: 10.1097/SPV.0b013e31823a08d9.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 22453228 (View on PubMed)

Coyne K, Revicki D, Hunt T, Corey R, Stewart W, Bentkover J, Kurth H, Abrams P. Psychometric validation of an overactive bladder symptom and health-related quality of life questionnaire: the OAB-q. Qual Life Res. 2002 Sep;11(6):563-74. doi: 10.1023/a:1016370925601.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 12206577 (View on PubMed)

Sandvik H, Seim A, Vanvik A, Hunskaar S. A severity index for epidemiological surveys of female urinary incontinence: comparison with 48-hour pad-weighing tests. Neurourol Urodyn. 2000;19(2):137-45. doi: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6777(2000)19:23.0.co;2-g.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 10679830 (View on PubMed)

Coyne KS, Matza LS, Kopp Z, Abrams P. The validation of the patient perception of bladder condition (PPBC): a single-item global measure for patients with overactive bladder. Eur Urol. 2006 Jun;49(6):1079-86. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2006.01.007. Epub 2006 Jan 24.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 16460875 (View on PubMed)

Coyne KS, Zyczynski T, Margolis MK, Elinoff V, Roberts RG. Validation of an overactive bladder awareness tool for use in primary care settings. Adv Ther. 2005 Jul-Aug;22(4):381-94. doi: 10.1007/BF02850085.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 16418145 (View on PubMed)

Burgio KL, Locher JL, Goode PS, Hardin JM, McDowell BJ, Dombrowski M, Candib D. Behavioral vs drug treatment for urge urinary incontinence in older women: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA. 1998 Dec 16;280(23):1995-2000. doi: 10.1001/jama.280.23.1995.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 9863850 (View on PubMed)

Ketai LH, Komesu YM, Schrader RM, Rogers RG, Sapien RE, Dodd AB, Mayer AR. Mind-body (hypnotherapy) treatment of women with urgency urinary incontinence: changes in brain attentional networks. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2021 May;224(5):498.e1-498.e10. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2020.10.041. Epub 2020 Oct 26.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 33122028 (View on PubMed)

Komesu YM, Schrader RM, Rogers RG, Sapien RE, Mayer AR, Ketai LH. Hypnotherapy or medications: a randomized noninferiority trial in urgency urinary incontinent women. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2020 Feb;222(2):159.e1-159.e16. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2019.08.025. Epub 2019 Aug 23.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 31449805 (View on PubMed)

Provided Documents

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Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan

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Other Identifiers

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1R01AT007171-01A1

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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09-314

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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