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Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00387439
Date of registration: 12/10/2006
Primary sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon
Public title: ORALIA Trial Medical Treatment vs Anoperineal Physiotherapy for Adult Anal Incontinence.
Scientific title: ORALIA Trial Randomized Controlled Trial of Medical Treatment Alone vs Medical Treatment Associated With Anoperineal Physiotherapy for Adult Anal Incontinence. Assessment of Incontinence Symptoms and Quality of Life.
Date of first enrolment: October 2006
Target sample size: 443
Recruitment status: Recruiting
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00387439
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label  
Countries of recruitment
France
Contacts
Name:   Henri DAMON, MD
Address: 
Telephone: 00.33.4.72.11.75.16
Email: henri.damon@chu-lyon.fr
Affiliation: 
Name:   François MION, MD
Address: 
Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  Hospices Civils de Lyon
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Age 18 to 75

- Anal incontinence for more than six months.

- Signed informed consent

- Jorge and Wexner's anal incontinence score > or egal 5

Exclusion Criteria:

- Previous course of anoperineal physiotherapy within the past 6 months

- Anorectal or perineal surgery within the past 6 months.

- Indication for anoperineal surgery

- Vaginal delivery within the past 6 months

- Pregnancy

- Major neurological disease,

- Significant cognitive impairment, dementia or institutionalised.

- Active inflammatory bowel disease.

- Current treatment by sacral nerve neurostimulation.

- Cardiac pacemaker

- Skin damages preventing transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS).



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 75 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Anal Incontinence
Intervention(s)
Behavioral: Standard medical treatment
Behavioral: standard medical treatment + anoperineal physiotherapy.
Primary Outcome(s)
The primary outcome variable is the patient's response to the question "How would you grade your symptom": major aggravation; aggravation, no changes, improvement and major improvement and rating of that change on an ordinal scale of -5 to +5. The p
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary outcomes include patient's symptoms questionnaire, continence score, quality of life questionnaire, stool diary and psychological status. These secondary outcomes are measured at the end of the 4 months treatment period and the end of follow-u
Secondary ID(s)
2006.429
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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