Can the Use of Uricap Female, a New Urine Collecting Device, Lead to Better Care for Women > 75+Years With Urinary Incontinence?
Can the Use of Uricap Female, a New Urine Collecting Device, Lead to Better Care for Women > 75+Years With Urinary Incontinence?
The purpose of the study is to evaluate if Uricap Female, an uridome for women, can be used instead of traditional incontinence aids to treat urinary incontinence (UI) among women 75 years and older.
The aim is to improve the care for female patients in long-term nursing homes who suffer from UI and to prevent recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs).
The project organization consist of researchers within primary care, geriatrics and nursing sciences. The investigators will recruit study participants with UI from long-term nursing homes in Örebro County that will be randomized in an open randomised controlled trial to an intervention or a control group. The intervention will last for 3 months. The study participants will receive a structured medical assessment before and after the intervention, including assessment of the patient's cognitive functions, genital skin status, neuropsychiatric symptoms and quality of life (QoL).
The uridome is changed daily while the control group will receive usual incontinence treatment. The investigators will study the number of UTIs during the intervention period, analyze inflammatory cytokines in urine using OLINK proteomics and ELISA to study inflammation. Health economic analysis will be performed.
The investigators believe that treatment with Uricap Female will be more effective in preventing recurrent UTIs, improve genital skin status, cognitive status and neuropsychiatric symptoms and QoL for the women. This will directly lead to individualised care and less strain on primary care resources.
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