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Overactive bladder is a clinical syndrome characterized by frequency, with or without urge incontinence, urgency, and nocturia, which affect patients' sleeping quality and rehabilitation program progressing. Current treatments include behavioral therapy (eg, life style adjustment, bladder training, pelvic floor muscle therapy) and medication. Antimuscarinic agents is the most common medications prescribed for OAB, but patients often have side effects like dry mouth and constipation. And there were plenty of herbal medicine which are beneficial to urine frequency and voiding dysfunction in ancient Chinese medicine books and records. In human trial, 62 Subjects diagnosed as overactive bladder will be enrolled and treated with Cinnamon patch. After treatment we will estimate the efficacy and record adverse events to conduct statistically analysis.
Overactive bladder is a clinical syndrome characterized by frequency, with or without urge incontinence, urgency, and nocturia, which affect patients' sleeping quality and rehabilitation program progressing. Current treatments include behavioral therapy (eg, life style adjustment, bladder training, pelvic floor muscle therapy) and medication. Antimuscarinic agents is the most common medications prescribed for OAB, but patients often have side effects like dry mouth and constipation. And there were plenty of herbal medicine which are beneficial to urine frequency and voiding dysfunction in ancient Chinese medicine books and records. In human trial, 62 Subjects diagnosed as overactive bladder will be enrolled and treated with Cinnamon patch. After treatment we will estimate the efficacy and record adverse events to conduct statistically analysis.
The 1st year project: (1) Expect to enroll 62 clinical subjects of OAB. (2) Evaluate subjects 'symptom and proceed patch treatment. (3) Record treatment responses including adverse effect. (4) Conduct statistically analysis.
The 2nd year project: (1) Completing enrollment of 62 clinical subjects of OAB. (2) Finish evaluation and treatment of all subjects. (3) Statistically analysis all collecting data (4) Discuss and analyze the outcome.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| herbal patch group | Experimental | using herbal patch as an intervention |
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| placebo patch group | Placebo Comparator | using placebo patch as an intervention |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| herbal patch | Drug | One patch with medicine should be applied to the skin every other day within two weeks |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| OABSS | Overactive bladder symptom score, questionnaire | Change from Baseline OABSS at 2weeks |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| PPBC | Patient perception of bladder condition, questionnaire | Change from Baseline PPBC at 2weeks |
| USS | Urgency Severity Scale, questionnaire |
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Exclusion Criteria:
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| LIH-LIAN CHEN, MD | attending physician of department of Traditional Chinese medicine | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| EnChuKong hospital | New Taipei City | Sanxia Dist | 237 | Taiwan |
primary and secondary outcome of this study
information sharing after paper published
all in public, without any kind of review
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overactive bladder patients
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| placebo patch | Drug | One patch without medicine should be applied to the skin every other day within two weeks |
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| Change from Baseline USS at 2weeks |
| TCMBCQ | Traditional Chinese Medicine Body Constitution Questionnaire | Change from Baseline TCMBCQ at 2weeks |