Cochrane · systematic review · CD012668
Yoga for treating urinary incontinence in women
Wieland, LS, Shrestha, N, Lassi, ZS, et al. · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews · 2019 · Cochrane Library
IncontinenceAMSTAR 2: not assessed
SoF tableOnly the outcomes this review put in its Summary of Findings table are listed (the Cochrane Handbook caps them at about seven per comparison). Its other analyses are not shown here.
Questions
14
current version
GRADE rated
10
No studies
4
Included studies
NR
No studies 4 · 28.6%Ungraded 0 · 0%Very low 10 · 71.4%Low 0 · 0%Moderate 0 · 0%High 0 · 0%
Ungraded means an effect was reported without a GRADE rating; it is not a gap. No studies means the review found nothing to answer the question. The six categories are a display order, not a score.
Questions and results
Yoga versus no specific active intervention
Population: women with either stress‐predominant or urge‐predominant urinary incontinence
| Outcome | Effect | Evidence | Status / GRADE |
|---|---|---|---|
Number of women who report they are cured (they no longer experience urinary incontinence) Yoga vs no specific active intervention | no estimate extracted | NR | No studies |
Number of women who report cure or improvement of urinary incontinence at short term (six weeks) Yoga vs no specific active intervention | RR 6.33 [1.44, 27.88] | 1 study · 18 participants | Very low Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision |
Urinary incontinence condition‐ or symptom‐specific quality of life at short term (6 weeks) Measured by Incontinence Impact Questionnaire Short Form (IIQ‐7) (lower = better) Yoga vs no specific active intervention | no estimate extracted | 1 study · 18 participants | Very low Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision |
Number of micturitions (daily) at short term (6 weeks) Yoga vs no specific active intervention | no estimate extracted | 1 study · 18 participants | Very low Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision |
Number of episodes of incontinence (daily) at short term (6 weeks) Yoga vs no specific active intervention | no estimate extracted | 1 study · 18 participants | Very low Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision |
Bothersomeness of symptoms at short term (6 weeks) Measured by Urogenital Distress Inventory 6 (UDI‐6) (lower = better) Yoga vs no specific active intervention | no estimate extracted | 1 study · 18 participants | Very low Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision |
Adverse effects at short term (6 weeks) Yoga vs no specific active intervention | RD 0 | 1 study · 18 participants | Very low Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision |
Yoga versus an active intervention
Population: women with urge‐predominant urinary incontinence
| Outcome | Effect | Evidence | Status / GRADE |
|---|---|---|---|
Number of women who report they are cured (they no longer experience urinary incontinence) Yoga vs an active intervention | no estimate extracted | NR | No studies |
Number of women who report cure or improvement of urinary incontinence at short term (8 weeks) Yoga vs an active intervention | RR 0.09 [0.01, 1.43] | 1 study · 24 participants | Very low Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, indirectness |
Urinary incontinence condition‐ or symptom‐specific quality of life at short term (8 weeks) Measured by the Overactive Bladder Health‐Related Quality of Life (OAB‐HRQL) scale (higher per cent improvement = better) Yoga vs an active intervention | no estimate extracted | NR | Very low Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, indirectness |
Number of micturitions (daily) Yoga vs an active intervention | no estimate extracted | NR | No studies |
Number of episodes of incontinence (daily) at short term (8 weeks) Yoga vs an active intervention | no estimate extracted | NR | Very low Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, indirectness |
Bothersomeness of symptoms at short term (6 weeks) Measured by the Overactive Bladder Symptom and Quality of Life‐Short Form (OABq‐SF) (lower = better) Yoga vs an active intervention | no estimate extracted | NR | Very low Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, indirectness |
Adverse effects Yoga vs an active intervention | no estimate extracted | NR | No studies |