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Urinary Incontinence, StressPhase 3ESTEEMNCT01959347

Combined Treatment for Mixed Incontinence

A Phase 3 study testing Miduretheral Sling and Miduretheral Sling with behavioral/pelvic floor therapy in people with Urinary Incontinence, Stress and Urinary Incontinence, Urge, run by NICHD Pelvic Floor Disorders Network at 10 sites in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

Official record
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Trial summary

The overarching goal of this randomized trial is to estimate the effect of combined midurethral sling (MUS) and peri-operative behavioral/pelvic floor therapy (BPTx) compared to MUS alone on successful treatment of MUI symptoms in 472 women. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 21 years and older, women only
What is being tested?
Miduretheral Sling and Miduretheral Sling with behavioral/pelvic floor therapy
Type of treatment
Surgery or procedure
Could I receive a placebo?
Yes, some participants may receive a placebo
How many people
480 participants
Where
10 sitesUnited States
Study dates
28 Oct 2013to 29 Sep 2017
Phase
Phase 3
Are there results?
Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 21 years and older
  • Women only
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Presence of both SUI and UUI on bladder diary; and > 2 IEs/3 days
  • > 1 Stress IE/3 day diary
  • > 1 Urge IE/3 day diary
  • Reporting at least "moderate bother" from UUI item on the UDI "Do you usually experience urine leakage associated with a feeling of urgency, that is a strong sensation of needing to go to the bathroom?"
  • Reporting at least "moderate bother" from SUI item on UDI "Do you usually experience urine leakage related to coughing, sneezing, or laughing"
  • Diagnosis of SUI defined by a positive cough stress test (CST) or urodynamic evaluation within the past 18 months
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  • Desires surgical treatment for SUI symptoms
  • Urinary symptoms >3 months
  • Subjects understand that BPTx is a treatment option for MUI outside of ESTEEM study protocol
  • Urodynamics within past 18 months

Who cannot join

  • Anterior or apical compartment prolapse at or beyond the hymen (>0 on POPQ), regardless if patient is symptomatic
  • a)Women with anterior or apical prolapse above the hymen (<0) who do not report vaginal bulge symptoms will be eligible
  • Planned concomitant surgery for anterior vaginal wall or apical prolapse > 0
  • a)Women undergoing only rectocele repair are eligible
  • Women undergoing hysterectomy for any indication will be excluded
  • Active pelvic organ malignancy
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  • Age <21 years
  • Pregnant or plans for future pregnancy in next 12 months, or within 12 months post-partum
  • Post-void residual >150 cc on 2 occasions, or current catheter use
  • Participation in other trial that may influence results of this study
  • Unevaluated hematuria
  • Prior sling, synthetic mesh for prolapse, implanted nerve stimulator for incontinence
  • Spinal cord injury or advanced/severe neurologic conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinsons
  • Women on anti-muscarinic therapy will be eligible after 3 week wash-out period
  • Non-ambulatory
  • History of serious adverse reaction to synthetic mesh
  • Not able to complete study assessments per clinician judgment, or not available for 12 month follow-up
  • Women who only report "other IE" on bladder diary, and do not report at minimum 1 stress and 1 urge IE/3 days
  • Diagnosis of and/or history of bladder pain or chronic pelvic pain
  • Women who had intravesical Botox injection within the past 12 months

Trial locations and contacts

10 sites in 1 country.

10 sites in 1 country

United States10 sites
  • University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

    Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87131-0001

  • University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

    Birmingham, Alabama, 35249-7333

  • Cleveland Clinic, Department OB/GYN

    Cleveland, Ohio, 44195

  • Kaiser Permanente -- Downey

    Downey, California, 90242

  • Duke University, Duke Division of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery

    Durham, North Carolina, 27707

  • University of California at San Diego, UCSD Women's Pelvic Medicine Center

    La Jolla, California, 92037-0974

  • University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104

  • Magee-Womens Hospital, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213

  • Brown/ Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, Center for Women's Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery

    Providence, Rhode Island, 02903

  • Kaiser Permanente -- San Diego

    San Diego, California, 92110

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About this study

Official title: Effects of Surgical Treatment Enhanced With Exercise for Mixed Urinary Incontinence (ESTEEM)

The overarching goal of this randomized trial is to estimate the effect of combined midurethral sling (MUS) and peri-operative behavioral/pelvic floor therapy (BPTx) compared to MUS alone on successful treatment of MUI symptoms in 472 women. Secondary objectives include estimating the effect of combined treatment compared to MUS on improving overactive bladder (OAB) and stress urinary incontinence (SUI) outcomes separately, need for additional treatment, time to failure and identifying predictors of poor outcomes in this MUI population.

A supplemental study, The Human Microbiome Study of ESTEEM, will evaluate the urinary and vaginal microbiome as it relates to women with MUI, their treatment and unaffected controls.

Read the detailed description

ESTEEM is a multi-center randomized trial of 472 women with MUI who have elected to undergo surgical treatment for SUI. Participants will be randomized to a peri-operative BPTx program+MUS versus MUS alone. The purpose is to compare combined MUS+BPTx versus MUS alone (control) on improving MUI symptoms at 1 year.

Patients will be assigned to one of the two treatment groups. Randomization will be stratified by clinical site and by UUI "severity," which will be defined by the number of urgency urinary IEs on diary.

The primary outcome for this study is the mean change from baseline in UDI-total score at 1 year postoperative. The UDI is a validated, disease-specific, patient-reported outcome (PRO) measure.

Secondary outcomes UUI/OAB outcomes will be measured using the UDI-irritative subscale that measures symptom burden, impact, and changes related to OAB. It is highly responsive to treatment-related change and is able to discriminate among levels of change in all bladder diary variables (urinary urgency, frequency and urge incontinence) and patient ratings of treatment benefit that will characterize how MUS may affect all OAB symptoms individually and as a whole. SUI symptom outcomes will be measured using the UDI-stress subscale to compare SUI outcomes between women randomized to MUS + BPTx versus MUS alone.

Other UUI/OAB outcomes that will be compared between groups include 1) the change in IE frequency and type, number of urgency episodes, urgency severity with voids, number of diurnal voids, and number of nocturnal voids using a bladder diary; 2) patient satisfaction with treatment using the OAB-SAT-q; 3) bother and heal related quality of life using the OAB-q subscale

For analyzing time to failure, "failure" will be defined as initiation of any additional treatment for either SUI or UUI/OAB symptoms during the follow-up period. Subjects lost to follow up will be censored at the time of their last visit.

Quality of life/global impression will be assessed be compared between treatment groups using the a) Incontinence Impact Questionnaire (IIQ), Pelvic Organ Prolapse/Urinary Incontinence Sexual Questionnaire (PISQ), c) European Quality of Life-5 Dimensions (EQ-5D), d) Adaptation Index and e) Patient Global Impression of Improvement (PGI-I) and Patient Global Impression of Severity (PGI-S).

Safety/additional treatments will be characterized as a) additional re-treatments for SUI or UUI within 12 months of treatment, and type of re-treatment and b) return to OR for sling revision due to worsened OAB symptoms.

To evaluate the association between PFM strength and improvements in UI symptoms, we will objectively assess PFM strength changes using the Peritron Perineometer, and instrument specifically designed for pelvic floor assessment.

Being tested
Miduretheral Sling, Miduretheral Sling with behavioral/pelvic floor therapy
Keywords
urinary incontinence, midurethral sling, pelvic floor therapy
Medical subject headings
Urinary Incontinence, Stress, Urinary Incontinence, Urge, Urinary Incontinence

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Miduretheral SlingProcedure or surgery

    Also called MUS

    MUS can include the TVT™ (mechanical cut mesh only, Gynecare, ETHICON Women's Health \& Urology, Somerville, NJ), TVT-O™ (mechanical cut mesh only, Gynecare), or Monarc™ (American Medical Systems, Minnetonka, MN).

  • Miduretheral Sling with behavioral/pelvic floor therapyOther

    Also called MUS + BPTx

    MUS is combined with components of behavioral therapy (designed to change behaviors to encourage continence), and pelvic floor muscle therapy (designed to strengthen the pelvic floor muscles, enhance the physiological closure of the bladder neck, and improve coordination). This is done prior to MUS (1 visit) and after MUS for 5 visits at 2, 4, 6, 8 weeks and 6 months.

Study groups in NCT01959347
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Miduretheral Sling (Control)Sham comparatorMiduretheral Sling (Control)
Receives: Procedure: Miduretheral Sling
MUS+BPTxExperimentalMiduretheral Sling with behavioral/pelvic floor therapy
Receives: Other: Miduretheral Sling with behavioral/pelvic floor therapy

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Change From Baseline UDI Total Score

    The Urogenital Distress Inventory (UDI) is a standardized a measure of overactive bladder symptoms and health-related quality of life. The UDI scale has a range from 0 to 300 with higher scores indicating greater distress. The change from baseline outcome is calculated as the difference in score at 3, 6, or 12 months and the score at baseline.

    Measured: 3, 6, and 12 Months

Secondary outcomes (3)
  1. Change From Baseline UDI Stress Score

    The Urogenital Distress Inventory is a standardized a measure of overactive bladder symptoms and health-related quality of life. The UDI Stress subscale has a range from 0 to 100 with higher scores indicating greater distress. The change from baseline outcome is calculated as the difference in score at 3, 6, or 12 months and the score at baseline.

    Measured: 3, 6, and 12 Months

  2. Change From Baseline UDI Irritative Score

    The Urogenital Distress Inventory is a standardized a measure of overactive bladder symptoms and health-related quality of life. The UDI Irritative subscale has a range from 0 to 100 with higher scores indicating greater distress. The change from baseline outcome is calculated as the difference in score at 3, 6, or 12 months and the score at baseline.

    Measured: 3, 6, and 12 Months

  3. Change From Baseline UDI Obstructive Score

    The Urogenital Distress Inventory is a standardized a measure of overactive bladder symptoms and health-related quality of life. The UDI Obstructive subscale has a range from 0 to 100 with higher scores indicating greater distress. The change from baseline outcome is calculated as the difference in score at 3, 6, or 12 months and the score at baseline.

    Measured: 3, 6, and 12 Months

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted10 Oct 2013 (estimated)
  2. Study start28 Oct 2013
  3. Primary completion9 Aug 2017
  4. Study completion29 Sep 2017

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
Single blind
Who is masked
Care provider
Enrolment
480 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT01959347
Sponsor's protocol ID
PFDN-26P01
Other IDs
U10HD041261, U10HD069013, U10HD054215, U10HD041267, U10HD054214, U10HD069025, U10HD069010, U10HD041263
Acronym
ESTEEM
Status last verified
May 2020
First submitted
8 Oct 2013
Last updated
14 May 2020
Data monitoring committee
Yes
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Richter HE, Carnes MU, Komesu YM, Lukacz ES, Arya L, Bradley M, Rogers RG, Sung VW, Siddiqui NY, Carper B, Mazloomdoost D, Dinwiddie D, Gantz MG; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Pelvic Floor Disorders Network. Association between the urogenital microbiome and surgical treatment response in women undergoing midurethral sling operation for mixed urinary incontinence. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2022 Jan;226(1):93.e1-93.e15. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2021.07.008. Epub 2021 Jul 21.

    PubMed 34297969
  • Sung VW, Richter HE, Moalli P, Weidner AC, Nguyen JN, Smith AL, Dunivan G, Ridgeway B, Borello-France D, Newman DK, Mazloomdoost D, Carper B, Gantz MG; NICHD Pelvic Floor Disorders Network. Characteristics Associated With Treatment Failure 1 Year After Midurethral Sling in Women With Mixed Urinary Incontinence. Obstet Gynecol. 2021 Aug 1;138(2):199-207. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000004444.

    PubMed 34237755
  • Sung VW, Richter HE, Moalli P, Weidner AC, Nguyen JN, Smith AL, Dunivan G, Ridgeway B, Borello-France D, Newman DK, Mazloomdoost D, Carper B, Gantz MG; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Pelvic Floor Disorders Network*. Characteristics Associated With Treatment Failure 1 Year After Midurethral Sling in Women With Mixed Urinary Incontinence. Obstet Gynecol. 2020 Sep;136(3):482-491. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000003989.

    PubMed 32769647
  • Sung VW, Borello-France D, Newman DK, Richter HE, Lukacz ES, Moalli P, Weidner AC, Smith AL, Dunivan G, Ridgeway B, Nguyen JN, Mazloomdoost D, Carper B, Gantz MG; NICHD Pelvic Floor Disorders Network. Effect of Behavioral and Pelvic Floor Muscle Therapy Combined With Surgery vs Surgery Alone on Incontinence Symptoms Among Women With Mixed Urinary Incontinence: The ESTEEM Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2019 Sep 17;322(11):1066-1076. doi: 10.1001/jama.2019.12467.

    PubMed 31529007

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 3 study testing Miduretheral Sling and Miduretheral Sling with behavioral/pelvic floor therapy in people with Urinary Incontinence, Stress and Urinary Incontinence, Urge, run by NICHD Pelvic Floor Disorders Network at 10 sites in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 10 inclusion and 20 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 14 May 2020. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 10 sites in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. Some participants in this study may receive a placebo. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 3 studies compare the treatment with the current standard treatment or a placebo in a large group, to confirm how well it works and watch for side effects.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 14 May 2020). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Change From Baseline UDI Total Score (time frame: 3, 6, and 12 Months). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT01959347, which also lists 4 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 14 May 2020.

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