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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.

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).

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.

Measuring the outcomes for continence management technologies (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Patient reported outcomes for the evaluation of continence management technologies.

Psychometric evaluation of a new patient-completed questionnaire for evaluating anal incontinence symptoms and impact on quality of life: The ICIQ-B (2011)
Journal Article

BACKGROUND: A psychometrically robust patient-completed questionnaire for anal incontinence, which reflects issues of importance to both clinicians and patients, was lacking for assessment purposes. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine the psycho... Read More about Psychometric evaluation of a new patient-completed questionnaire for evaluating anal incontinence symptoms and impact on quality of life: The ICIQ-B.

Quality of life issues in continence care (2011)
Journal Article

Urinary and faecal incontinence affect a significant proportion of the population. Both types of incontinence can limit activities of daily living, restrict the individual’s ability to function in society and, as a consequence, affect quality of life... Read More about Quality of life issues in continence care.

Pre-test assessment using questionnaires (2011)
Book Chapter

The use of the International Consultation on Incontinence Modular Questionnaires in association with urodynamic assessment.

“Which are the best outcome measures when assessing treatments for lower urinary tract dysfunction?” (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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 “Which are the best outcome measures when assessing treatments for lower urinary tract dysfunction?”.

International Consultation on Incontinence Modular Questionnaire (ICIQ) (2010)
Book Chapter

A summary of the International Consultation on Incontinence Modular Questionnaires with relevance to urology and urogynaecology care.

Initial assessment of urinary and faecal incontinence in adult male and female patients (2009)
Book Chapter

Triennial review of patient-reported outcome measures and initial assessments associated with incontinence.

Development and psychometric evaluation of the ICIQ anal incontinence module: the ICIQ-B (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Development and psychometric evaluation of the ICIQ anal incontinence module: the ICIQ-B.

A patient-centered approach to developing a comprehensive symptom and quality of life assessment of anal incontinence (2007)
Journal Article

PURPOSE: This study was designed to identify question items required for a comprehensive symptom and quality of life assessment for individuals with anal incontinence. METHODS: Three substudies addressed the goals: 1) convenience sample of clinical e... Read More about A patient-centered approach to developing a comprehensive symptom and quality of life assessment of anal incontinence.

Impact of surgical treatment on nocturia in men with benign prostatic obstruction (2006)
Journal Article

OBJECTIVES: To validate the International Consultation on Incontinence Nocturia Quality-of-life (NQoL) questionnaire in Italian (IT-NQoL) and use it to evaluate the impact of surgical treatment on nocturia in men with lower urinary tract symptoms rel... Read More about Impact of surgical treatment on nocturia in men with benign prostatic obstruction.

The international consultation on incontinence modular questionnaire: www.iciq.net (2006)
Journal Article

Purpose: In 1998 the first ICI was held in Monaco, sponsored by WHO and organized by the International Continence Society and International Consultation on Urological Diseases. The Scientific Committee recognized the need to develop a universally app... Read More about The international consultation on incontinence modular questionnaire: www.iciq.net.

Methods of development of a symptom and QOL measure for bowel symptoms: ICIQ-BS (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Hypothesis / aims of study
Under the aegis of the International Consultation on Incontinence, whose scientific programmes are organised by the ICS, the ICI Modular Questionnaire (ICIQ) project (www.iciq.net) is developing a comprehensive and univers... Read More about Methods of development of a symptom and QOL measure for bowel symptoms: ICIQ-BS.

Management of fecal incontinence in adults with neurogenic bowel dysfunction
Book Chapter

Neurogenic bowel dysfunction can be classified according to the location of the lesion or disease and can be seen in patients with any central nervous system benign or neoplastic pathology. In the case of spinal cord lesions or disease, the level of... Read More about Management of fecal incontinence in adults with neurogenic bowel dysfunction.