Emma Nyström will defend her thesis “Self-Management of Urinary Incontinence Using eHealth : clinically relevant improvement, treatment effect and factors associated with success” in Swedish, the 11th of January at Östersund’s hospital. Read more here
The Tät® app for pelvic floor muscle exercises is now available in Swedish, Arabic, English, Finnish, German and Spanish. We continue to follow up usage and results using anonymous surveys in the app, more than 50,000 women have answered our surveys. Find out more about the study here.
We are now releasing a new version of the Tät® app on the App Store and on Google Play. It is available in both Swedish and English and it is free. It has a new design and we have also added the ability to use sound for the pelvic floor exercises. The training statistics functionality has been improved. As previously, we follow up usage and results using surveys in the app, and so far 28,000 women have answered our surveys. Find out more about the app here and more about the study here.
We analysed data from the study of the first mobile app Tät® to assess if certain factors were associated with larger improvement. Our analysis showed that a larger part of the women who had higher expectations, did not gain weight, and increased their pelvic floor muscle strength also experienced larger impressions of improvement. The entire article can be found here.
Two years after the treatment we followed up those women who had used the app Tät® for treating stress incontinence. The improvement in symptoms and quality of life, compared with before treatment, was statistically significant and at the same level as three months after the start of treatment. The long term results provide support for use of the app Tät® as a first-line treatment. Read more here (summary in English).
A health economic analysis of the app Tät for treatment of stress incontinence was recently published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. The study concludes that the app is a new, cost-effective, first-line treatment alternative which can increase the access of these women to healthcare in an economically sustainable way. Read more here.
Eva Samuelsson has been granted 3.9 million kronor by Kampradsstiftelsen as funding for the project ”E-treatment for urinary incontinence in women, men, the elderly and frail elderly people”, link.
The project is being conducted by Umeå University in collaboration with Lund University, Örebro University, Mid Sweden University, Region Jämtland Härjedalen, Skåne University Hospital and patient associations.
