Mobile health application for the treatment of urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy: development and quality analysis.
Fabrícia Eduarda Baia Estevam, Adriana Ferreira Machado, Cissa Azevedo and 5 others
PMID 39443287WHAT IT FOUND
An app for men with urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy guides pelvic floor exercises, bladder diary, lifestyle advice, and nursing contact.
Sixteen experts rated all assessed quality characteristics satisfactory, but accessibility and user error protection were weak; it has not been tested in patients.
Key findings
01All assessed quality characteristics met the study's satisfactory threshold.
02Accessibility and user error protection were rated weak.
03No men with urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy tested the app's quality of use or clinical effectiveness.
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What it does not show
Only 16 experts assessed the application, although 30 were invited. Patients who actually have urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy did not test the app's quality of use or clinical effectiveness. The app was assessed only on Android, and maintainability and portability were not assessed. Accessibility and user error protection received weak agreement, and auditory accessibility was not planned in this first version.
Declared interests
Financial support came from FAPEMIG and CNPq; no company sponsor or author conflicts of interest are stated.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that the app improves urinary incontinence. It was built and rated by experts, but men with urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy did not test its quality of use or clinical effectiveness.