Patients’ experiences with self-management of conservative interventions for fecal incontinence
Aims: To describe patients’ experience self-managing conservative interventions for fecal incontinence (FI) during usual FI care. Methods: Community-living adults with FI recruited from urogynecology and continence clinics participated in a pilot study developing a mobile application for FI self-man...
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| author | Donna Z. Bliss Marshall K. Muehlbauer Dominique Jamison Alexandra Weinberger Molly Conway Casey Kirchschlager Olga V. Gurvich Jeannine McCormick Ryanne Johnson Mary Benbenek Emma Jennings Joseph A. Konstan Holly E. Richter |
| author_facet | Donna Z. Bliss Marshall K. Muehlbauer Dominique Jamison Alexandra Weinberger Molly Conway Casey Kirchschlager Olga V. Gurvich Jeannine McCormick Ryanne Johnson Mary Benbenek Emma Jennings Joseph A. Konstan Holly E. Richter |
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| description | Aims: To describe patients’ experience self-managing conservative interventions for fecal incontinence (FI) during usual FI care. Methods: Community-living adults with FI recruited from urogynecology and continence clinics participated in a pilot study developing a mobile application for FI self-management support. Data were collected using a demographics questionnaire, FI severity index tool, and semi-structured interviews about participants’ experience self-managing conservative interventions for FI which were part of their usual care treatment plan. Interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim using online video software. Transcripts were analyzed using content analysis. Results: Data from 17 women, aged 30 to ≥60 years, 9 White, 8 Black/African American, who had FI ranging from less than one year to more than 10 years were analyzed in this study. Themes of responses described starting interventions soon after receiving them, mixed opinions about ease of performing some interventions (e.g., pelvic floor muscle exercises, completing diaries), barriers to performing interventions (e.g., forgetfulness, no time), practical strategies facilitating self-management (e.g., setting alarms, keeping a schedule), emotional strategies that were supportive and motivating (e.g., maintaining hope, seeing positive results), and advice about self-management to others with FI (seek help, give it time). Conclusion: Patient experiences provided clinicians with specific topics to target for patient education and ways to support themselves in self-managing FI. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-bef3383748df4930b87d07ce69c7e4c22025-08-26T04:14:39ZengElsevierContinence2772-97372025-09-011510227310.1016/j.cont.2025.102273Patients’ experiences with self-management of conservative interventions for fecal incontinenceDonna Z. Bliss0Marshall K. Muehlbauer1Dominique Jamison2Alexandra Weinberger3Molly Conway4Casey Kirchschlager5Olga V. Gurvich6Jeannine McCormick7Ryanne Johnson8Mary Benbenek9Emma Jennings10Joseph A. Konstan11Holly E. Richter12University of Minnesota School of Nursing Minneapolis, MN, USA; Corresponding author. University of Minnesota School of Nursing, 5-140 Weaver Densford Hall, 308 Harvard Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA.University of Minnesota School of Nursing Minneapolis, MN, USAUniversity of Minnesota School of Nursing Minneapolis, MN, USAUniversity of Minnesota School of Nursing Minneapolis, MN, USAUniversity of Minnesota School of Nursing Minneapolis, MN, USAUniversity of Minnesota School of Nursing Minneapolis, MN, USAUniversity of Minnesota School of Nursing Minneapolis, MN, USAUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham, Department Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Surgery, Birmingham, AL, USA; University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Medicine, Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Birmingham, AL, USAUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham, Department Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Surgery, Birmingham, AL, USAUniversity of Minnesota School of Nursing Minneapolis, MN, USAUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham, Department Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Surgery, Birmingham, AL, USAUniversity of Minnesota Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Minneapolis, MN, USAUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham, Department Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Surgery, Birmingham, AL, USAAims: To describe patients’ experience self-managing conservative interventions for fecal incontinence (FI) during usual FI care. Methods: Community-living adults with FI recruited from urogynecology and continence clinics participated in a pilot study developing a mobile application for FI self-management support. Data were collected using a demographics questionnaire, FI severity index tool, and semi-structured interviews about participants’ experience self-managing conservative interventions for FI which were part of their usual care treatment plan. Interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim using online video software. Transcripts were analyzed using content analysis. Results: Data from 17 women, aged 30 to ≥60 years, 9 White, 8 Black/African American, who had FI ranging from less than one year to more than 10 years were analyzed in this study. Themes of responses described starting interventions soon after receiving them, mixed opinions about ease of performing some interventions (e.g., pelvic floor muscle exercises, completing diaries), barriers to performing interventions (e.g., forgetfulness, no time), practical strategies facilitating self-management (e.g., setting alarms, keeping a schedule), emotional strategies that were supportive and motivating (e.g., maintaining hope, seeing positive results), and advice about self-management to others with FI (seek help, give it time). Conclusion: Patient experiences provided clinicians with specific topics to target for patient education and ways to support themselves in self-managing FI.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772973725005326Fecal incontinenceTreatmentConservative interventionsSelf-managementPatient experience |
| spellingShingle | Donna Z. Bliss Marshall K. Muehlbauer Dominique Jamison Alexandra Weinberger Molly Conway Casey Kirchschlager Olga V. Gurvich Jeannine McCormick Ryanne Johnson Mary Benbenek Emma Jennings Joseph A. Konstan Holly E. Richter Patients’ experiences with self-management of conservative interventions for fecal incontinence Continence Fecal incontinence Treatment Conservative interventions Self-management Patient experience |
| title | Patients’ experiences with self-management of conservative interventions for fecal incontinence |
| title_full | Patients’ experiences with self-management of conservative interventions for fecal incontinence |
| title_fullStr | Patients’ experiences with self-management of conservative interventions for fecal incontinence |
| title_full_unstemmed | Patients’ experiences with self-management of conservative interventions for fecal incontinence |
| title_short | Patients’ experiences with self-management of conservative interventions for fecal incontinence |
| title_sort | patients experiences with self management of conservative interventions for fecal incontinence |
| topic | Fecal incontinence Treatment Conservative interventions Self-management Patient experience |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772973725005326 |
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