Abstract
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of a self-management program with coaching for outpatients with urge incontinence. The Subjects were twenty-one outpatients with urge urinary incontinence. We analysed the presence or absence of languages showing the coaching basic elements in the guidance on self-management by the GROW model. Participants’ voiding symptoms, implementation frequency of self-management, and Urinary Incontinence Quality of Life Scale (IQOL) scores were compared before and one month after receiving guidance on self-management. All subjects, save one, had been exposed to some of the languages showing the coaching basic elements of GROW model in the past. After the self-management program, IQOL scores (p ＜0.05), once voided volume (p ＜0.001) and the implementation frequency of self-management (p ＜0.001) all significantly increased. In addition, the frequency of urination during the day (p ＜0.05) and at night (p ＜0.01) decreased. Furthermore, a significant difference was observed in “imagination of options” (p ＜0.05) and “resource discovery” (p ＜0.001) between patients with high IQOL scores and those with low IQOL scores and those with low IQOL scores.
We found that a self-management program offering coaching to outpatients with urge incontinence appeared to help improve patients’ self-management ability, reduce their symptoms, and enhance their quality of life.
