Educational-Medical-Behavioral Treatment of Fecal Incontinence

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 2015-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

In previous studies at a university referral center the investigators demonstrated that a multicomponent conservative treatment for fecal incontinence was effective. The treatment combines patient education with medical management of diarrhea and constipation plus behavioral training. The purpose of this study is to determine whether this treatment is effective when delivered by home health care nurses to frail elderly patients.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Collaborator: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
• Treatments: Antidiarrheals; Cathartics; Laxatives; Loperamide; Polyethylene glycol 3350

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Self-reported fecal incontinence at least once a month

• Family caregiver available and willing to participate in treatment sessions and willing to assist patient with study procedures

• Patients and caregivers willing to be interviewed by a research assistant in their home on three occasions

• Onset of fecal incontinence more than 3 months previously (i.e., not transient fecal incontinence)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Has a stoma or fecal incontinence status is unknown

• Has fecal incontinence less than monthly

• Severe cognitive impairment (response of 4 on OASIS question M1700)