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<p>The Department funds research through the National Institute for Health Research.
A trial to compare mixed multi/single-use catheter management with single-use catheter
management for people with intermittent catheter use was funded by the Programme Grants
for Applied Research programme in 2013 with a funding level of £2,374,857.</p><p>The
project consists of several work packages, leading up to the clinical trial, including:
identifying and describing how and why different catheters are selected/prescribed
from different viewpoints; developing, testing and comparing methods of reusing, storing
and lubricating catheters to identify the most effective, safe and practical technique;
developing a questionnaire to measure quality of life of people using indwelling catheters
(IC); identifying which symptoms relate to urine infection in IC users; and finally
carrying out a clinical trial to determine the acceptability of different catheter
designs and the effect on quality of life and infection.</p><p>The clinical trial
was approved by the South Central, Hampshire A Research Ethics Committee on 12 July
2019 and by the Health Research Authority on 9 August 2019.</p><p>As ethical approval
has only recently been granted, no participants have been recruited to the trial to
date.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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