Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Techniques and Yoga for Treatment of Urinary Urge Incontinence (MBSR-Yoga) (MBSR-Yoga)
Urinary Incontinence, Urinary Incontinence, Urge
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Urinary Incontinence focused on measuring Mindfulness, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Meditation, Yoga
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Females at least 18 years of age
- Five or more urge urinary incontinence episodes on a three-day voiding diary. Urge incontinence episodes will be determined based on voiding diary and subject indication of coincident urge symptoms, allowing self-characterization of incontinence type.
- Urge predominant (urge >50% of total incontinent episodes) urinary incontinence based on self-reported characterization of incontinent episodes on diary.
- Request for treatment for urge urinary incontinence.
- Subject is able to complete all study related items and interviews.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Any current or recent (past 4 weeks) anticholinergic medication use. Patient may discontinue medication and after 4 weeks may be eligible for study.
- Past non-pharmacologic treatment for urge incontinence such as supervised behavioral therapy, supervised or unsupervised physical therapy, supervised biofeedback, and transvaginal electrical stimulation.
- Current symptomatic urinary tract infection that has not resolved prior start of MBSR group.
- Symptoms of pelvic organ prolapse screened by PFDI (Pelvic Floor Disorder Inventory question #3) "Do you have a bulge or something falling out that you can see or feel in the vaginal area?"
- Previous or currently implanted neuromodulation (sacral or tibial).
- Surgically altered detrusor muscle, such as augmentation cystoplasty.
- Women with known neurologic disease believed to potentially affect urinary function (Multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injuries, myasthenia gravis, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease).
- In the opinion of the investigator, inability to understand diary instructions and complete 3-day voiding diary.
- Subject has been previously diagnosed with interstitial cystitis or chronic pelvic pain syndrome.
- Currently pregnant or within 6 months postpartum (pregnancy is not excluded for safety reasons but for quality of data)
Sites / Locations
- University of Utah
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Sham Comparator
Active Comparator
Sham Yoga Group Treatment
MBSR Group Treatment
Sham yoga group (control group) will attend 8 weekly sessions for 1-2 hours and will be lead by a certified yoga instructor. The yoga class will be based on Pantajali's Eight Fold Path which is the basis of Yoga. Emphasis will be placed on healthy alignment and ways to pace and adjust poses to make them safe and productive for the body.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) was developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979. MBSR is a group-based intervention, typically provided to up to 30 participants, in a class-based format of eight weekly two hour sessions.