Improving Primary Care Understanding of Resources and Screening for Urinary Incontinence to Enhance Treatment (PURSUIT)

The Department of Veterans Affairs Integrated Service Network (VISN-7) is our targeted region for this proposal, named “Improving Primary Care Understanding of Resources and Screening for Urinary Incontinence to Enhance Treatment (PURSUIT)” as part of the Improving Nonsurgical Treatment of Urinary

Incontinence among women in Primary Care (INTUIT-PC). Our overarching goal is to improve access to evidence-based nonsurgical UI treatment for women Veterans using the most effective remote delivery modality in the Southeast region of the U.S. In our first aim, we will compare two models: our mHealth UI

modality alone and our mHealth UI model combined with clinician expertise delivered via clinical video telehealth (CVT) to improve UI symptoms at the patient level. With leverage from our current clinical trial infrastructure that utilizes these two models, our proposed study will incorporate a sequential, multiple

assignment, randomized trial (SMART) design to determine the optimal model for remote delivery of nonsurgical UI treatment for UI symptom improvement. In our second aim, we propose an implementation strategy of practice facilitation, to improve awareness and adherence to evidence-based guidelines on

nonsurgical UI treatments at the practice level. We will employ a Type 1 Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation design to assess the effectiveness of our mHealth intervention, while using the Reach, Efficacy/effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance (RE-AIM) framework to guide our practice level implementation

approach. For our third mixed-methodology aim, we seek to explore women Veterans’ and providers’ perceptions of key factors that may influence future remote UI treatment scalability for local, regional, and national dissemination. PURSUIT aims to target 62 primary care practices that treat over 50,000 women

Veterans. Practices will be randomized in clusters to receive the interactive mHealth UI application non- surgical UI treatment modality with or without additional clinical UI expertise delivered via telehealth. All primary care practices will receive practice facilitation with a PURSUIT toolkit that includes (1) 1-2 visits with a

practice facilitator engaging practices through virtual group sessions and one on-site visit (if allowed); (2) Mobile-health or mHealth Application Training (MAT) training: MAT training will be offered through in-person academic detailing, online resources, and ongoing support via email or office hours with project staff and

experts; 3) Online Resource Hub: The online resource hub will be available throughout project implementation, and e-learning modules will serve as the structural base for virtual practice facilitation sessions; and (4) Health information technology (HIT) assistance: Project staff will offer support in developing UI registries for

population management, quality improvement, and data reporting through the mHealth nonsurgical UI application. Our future goal is to disseminate the most effective modality for delivering nonsurgical UI treatment for women Veterans nationally within the Veterans Healthcare Administration.