Community-Based Continence Promotion: Mind Over Matter; Healthy Bowels, Healthy Bladder (MOM)

03/01/2017 - 02/28/2019

Sponsor: WPP PERC New Investigator Award (233 PRJ 25DJ)

Status: Ongoing

Mind Over Matter: Healthy Bowels, Healthy Bladder (MOM) is a community-based workshop for older Wisconsin women that builds skills and self-efficacy to control incontinence symptoms through exercises and lifestyle changes, and provides tools to talk to a doctor if these changes don’t cure symptoms. This project aims to test MOM’s effectiveness using a rigorous randomized, controlled trial (RCT) study design and to develop an implementation toolkit that will allow busy senior centers to more easily consider and incorporate MOM into their programming.

Media Highlights: Rapaport L. Behavior modification program can improve incontinence. Reuters Health News September 12, 2019 (Retrieved 10/29/19 from: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-incontinence-behavior-modifica-idUSKCN1VX2C8)

Short oral podium presentation at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the International Continence Society, Gothenburg, Sweden, September 4, 2019. https://www.ics.org/2019/abstract/61

Publications:

Brown HW, Braun EJ, Wise ME, Myers S, Li Z, Sampene E, Jansen SM, Moberg DP, Mahoney JE, Rogers RG. Small-Group, Community-Member Intervention for Urinary and Bowel Incontinence: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Obstet Gynecol. 2019 Sep;134(3):600-610. PMID: 31403596. PMCID: PMC6732187.