The app Tät® II is developed for women with mixed and urgency urinary incontinence. The app had shown to be effective in a randomised controlled study, read full-text article here or see the list of publications. Now we wish to study how the app would work after contact with the ordinary health care. Further information about study participation is available in Swedish here.
The proportion of app users with the longest and shortest educations changed to become more like the average Swedish population. Users with a university education are still over-represented. A large proportion of app users live in rural areas and the proportion increases.
Full-text article available here
Towe Wadensten, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, defends her doctoral thesis: App-based self-management of urgency and mixed urinary incontinence in women. Efficacy, long-term results, and factors associated with treatment satisfaction.
Opponent Professor Guri Rortveit, Institutt for global helse og samfunnsmedisin, Universitetet i Bergen, Norway.
Principal supervisor Malin Sjöström.
Read the dissertation here and follow the dissertation on campus or on Zoom.
The name of the app has been changed from TätIII to Tät-m and it has a new logo, a new design and simpler navigation. The app is now provided via eContinence AB in collaboration with the the Swedish Prostate Cancer Federation.
Thanks to all men who have responded to the questionnaires over the years. Your contribution has helped to increase knowledge about pelvic floor muscle training and urinary leakage.
In a recently published study, we analysed how large reduction on the symptom score ICIQ –UI SF was required for a clinically relevant improvement. The results showed that it depended on the baseline severity, more symptoms required larger reductions to perceive improvement. Full-text article available here
