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Trial reportFemale pelvic medicine & reconstructive surgery

Comparison of mindfulness-based stress reduction versus yoga on urinary urge incontinence: a randomized pilot study. with 6-month and 1-year follow-up visits.

Jan Baker, Donna Costa, Julie M Guarino, Ingrid Nygaard

Abstract readComparative StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Female pelvic medicine & reconstructive surgery. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. Yoga for treating urinary incontinence in women.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019
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  10. Health Disparities and Overactive Bladder: Bridging the Gap.Current bladder dysfunction reports · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jan BakerFrom the Departments of *Obstetrics and Gynecology, and †Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT.
Donna Costa
Julie M Guarino
Ingrid Nygaard

Funding

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH CENTER FOR CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE-UL1: BPCAUL1RR025764 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI MCCLAIN, DONALD A. · 2008 to 2011
$19.4M
University of Utah Center for Clinical and Translational Science-UL1UL1TR000105 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI MCCLAIN, DONALD A. · 2012 to 2013
$5.1M
NCATS NIH HHS 8UL1TR000105NCRR NIH HHS UL1RR025764
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesThe objective of this study is to compare the effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) versus yoga on urinary urge incontinence (UI) at 8 weeks, 6 months, and 1 year after beginning an 8-week program. MATERIALS AND

methodsParticipants in this prospective randomized single-masked pilot study were women aged 18 years or older with urge-predominant incontinence, 5 or more UI episodes (UIEs) on a 3-day voiding diary, and no recent anticholinergic use. Women were randomized to MBSR or yoga. The primary outcome was the percent change of UIE.

resultsOf 30 enrollees (15 in MBSR, 15 in yoga), 24 completed at least 5 of 8 sessions (13 in MBSR and 11 in yoga). Twenty and 21 women completed the 6-month and 12-month follow-up visits, respectively. At 8 weeks, 6 months, and 12 months, the median percent change from the baseline in UIE on the intention-to-treat analysis was greater for the MBSR group (-55.6, -71.4, and -66.7, respectively) compared with that for the yoga group (-33.3, -11.8, and -16.7, respectively), with P values ranging from 0.01 to 0.08. On intention-to-treat analysis, the median percent change in the Overactive Bladder Symptom and Quality of Life-Short Form and the Health-Related Quality of Life was greater at each time point for MBSR than for yoga but was statistically significant only at 8 weeks (P = 0.003 and 0.02, respectively). As per protocol analysis, at 8 weeks, 6/13 and 0/11 women in MBSR and yoga, respectively, reported they were very much or much better (P = 0.02), whereas at 1 year, 6/12 and 1/9 women in MBSR and yoga, respectively, did so (P = 0.16). DISCUSSION: These results support larger scale trials to evaluate MBSR, which seems to be a promising treatment of UI.

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YogaAdultAgedFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansMiddle AgedMindfulnessPilot ProjectsProspective StudiesRetreatmentStress, PsychologicalTreatment OutcomeUrinary Incontinence, UrgeYoung Adult

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PMID24763155

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