All Outputs (93)

International consultation on incontinence modular questionnaire (2016)
Book Chapter

A summary of the International Consultation on Incontinence Modular Questionnaire and its use in female urology and urogynaecology.

Bladder diary and symptom scores (2016)
Book Chapter

A summary of the use of bladder diaries and symptom scores for the evaluation of lower urinary tract symptoms.

Validated constipation symptom and quality-of-life measures neither reflect patient and clinician concerns nor use words familiar to patients (2016)
Journal Article

© MA Healthcare Ltd. Patients' self-reported constipation symptoms, preferred terminology and quality of life (QoL) issues were explored through 14 semi-structured and five unstructured interviews. In a modified Delphi study, 11 clinicians rated the... Read More about Validated constipation symptom and quality-of-life measures neither reflect patient and clinician concerns nor use words familiar to patients.

Cross-sectional prevalence study of urinary and/or anal incontinence and its impact on quality of life in a cohort of individuals with progressive multiple sclerosis (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Bladder and bowel problems are commonly reported among individuals with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Urinary incontinence (UI) affects between 19 and 80% of individuals with MS dependent on the definition and measurement methods used (1). Less is known a... Read More about Cross-sectional prevalence study of urinary and/or anal incontinence and its impact on quality of life in a cohort of individuals with progressive multiple sclerosis.

Qualitative development of a new patient reported outcome measure for underactive bladder (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Hypothesis / aims of study
The patient experience of underactive bladder (UAB) was explored, for the purpose of developing a Patient Reported Outcome (PRO) measure to assess the symptoms and impact of the condition. UAB is currently proposed as the... Read More about Qualitative development of a new patient reported outcome measure for underactive bladder.

Psychometric equivalence of electronic and telephone completion of the ICIQ modules (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Aims: To assess the equivalence of touch-screen (hand-held iPad) and telephone completion of patient-completed International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire (ICIQ) modules by comparison with corresponding dat... Read More about Psychometric equivalence of electronic and telephone completion of the ICIQ modules.

Development and initial validation of a disease-specific bowel continence questionnaire for inflammatory bowel disease patients: The ICIQ-IBD (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. Background and aims Faecal incontinence (FI) related to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affects up to 74% of patients and is often under-reported in clinical encounters. A previous study found... Read More about Development and initial validation of a disease-specific bowel continence questionnaire for inflammatory bowel disease patients: The ICIQ-IBD.

Using the ICIQ validated bladder diary and questionnaires in lower urinary tract dysfunction (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Use of the ICIQ modules for the assessment of lower urinary tract symptoms.

The association between the iciq-luts & the iciq-bladder diary in assessing luts (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The bladder diary (BD) provides an objective non-invasive method of investigating lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) while symptom questionnaires, such as the ICIQ-MLUTS (1) and ICIQ-FLUTS (2) for males and females respectively, provide a subjective... Read More about The association between the iciq-luts & the iciq-bladder diary in assessing luts.

Can a PRO be adequate without assessing quality of life? (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A think tank discussion regarding the adequacy of patient reported outcomes when quality of life is excluded.

Development and psychometric evaluation of The ICIQ-LTCqol: A self-report quality of life questionnaire for long-term indwelling catheter users (2015)
Journal Article

Aims
Long-term indwelling catheterisation may affect health related quality of life, but clinical assessment and monitoring of people with indwelling catheters is poorly recorded because there are no validated measures to capture these criteria. In... Read More about Development and psychometric evaluation of The ICIQ-LTCqol: A self-report quality of life questionnaire for long-term indwelling catheter users.

Clinical evaluation of a prototype underwear designed to detect urine leakage from continence pads (2015)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2015 by the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society. PURPOSE: We evaluated the performance of prototype underwear designed to detect urine leakage from continence pads, their acceptability to users, and their effect on health-related... Read More about Clinical evaluation of a prototype underwear designed to detect urine leakage from continence pads.

The impact of urinary incontinence on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in a real-world population of women aged 45-60 years: Results from a survey in France, Germany, the UK and the USA (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 The Authors. BJU International © 2014 BJU International. Objective To develop a clear understanding of the relationship between severity of urinary incontinence (UI) and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and mental well-being in a populat... Read More about The impact of urinary incontinence on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in a real-world population of women aged 45-60 years: Results from a survey in France, Germany, the UK and the USA.

Towards the development of the psychosocial impact of assistive devices scale for continence (C-PIADS) (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 - IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved. BACKGROUND: Current outcome measures for continence management devices do not adequately address psychosocial impact. The PIADS is an assessment tool that has been shown to reliably predict the... Read More about Towards the development of the psychosocial impact of assistive devices scale for continence (C-PIADS).

Developing and validating the international consultation on incontinence questionnaire bladder diary (2014)
Journal Article

Background Despite the common use of urinary diaries to assess lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), a standardised validated diary does not exist. Objective To develop a validated urinary diary, using the psychometric validation protocol used in prev... Read More about Developing and validating the international consultation on incontinence questionnaire bladder diary.

Development and psychometric evaluation of a self report quality of life questionnaire for individuals with long term indwelling catheter: The ICIQ-LTCqol (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Hypothesis / aims of study
Long-term indwelling catheters are commonly associated with complications which are known to be detrimental to quality of life. Clinical assessment and monitoring of patients with urinary catheters is also known to be poor... Read More about Development and psychometric evaluation of a self report quality of life questionnaire for individuals with long term indwelling catheter: The ICIQ-LTCqol.

Initial assessment of urinary incontinence in adult male and female patients: Patient reported outcome assessment (2013)
Book Chapter

Triennial review of the literature related to patient reported outcome assessments for incontinence.

Reliability of Arabic ICIQ-UI short form in Saudi Arabia (2013)
Journal Article

Context: The International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire-Urinary Incontinence Short Form (ICIQ-UI SF) provides a brief measure of symptoms and impact of urinary incontinence on quality of life. It is suitable for use in clinical practice... Read More about Reliability of Arabic ICIQ-UI short form in Saudi Arabia.

What are the best outcome measures when assessing treatments for LUTD?-achieving the most out of outcome evaluation: ICI-RS 2011 (2012)
Journal Article

A think tank was convened at the third ICI-RS meeting held in the UK, June 2011, to consider the best outcome measures when assessing treatments for lower urinary tract dysfunction (LUTD). Given the vast array of measures available a focus on questio... Read More about What are the best outcome measures when assessing treatments for LUTD?-achieving the most out of outcome evaluation: ICI-RS 2011.

Developing a validated urinary diary: Phase 1 (2012)
Journal Article

Aims: To develop and validate a urinary diary, using the psychometric validation protocol applied to all International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire (ICIQ) modules. Methods: Patient and clinician opinion was sought on diary content, form... Read More about Developing a validated urinary diary: Phase 1.