Background: Urgency is a complaint of sudden, compelling desire to pass urine, which is difficult to defer, caused by involuntary contraction of the detrusor muscle during the bladder-filling stage. To enable detrusor inhibition, electrotherapy resources such as transcutaneous tibial nerve stimulation (TTNS) and parasacral transcutaneous electrical stimulation (PTES) have been used. The objective this study is to publish the study protocol that aims to investigate whether urgency decreases after treatment with both of the techniques.Methods: This randomized controlled clinical trial will include 99 women, aged more than 18 years old, with urgency (score ≥ 8 in the Overactive Bladder-Validated 8-Question Awareness Tool [OAB-V8]). Women will be randomly allocated into three groups: TTNS, PTES, and placebo. The following questionnaires will be applied: the Anamnesis Record, the Incontinence Questionnaire Overactive Bladder, the King’s Health Questionnaire, the 24-Hour Voiding Diary, and the OAB-V8, at four different time points: at baseline prior to the first session, at the 6th session, the 12th session and at follow-up. The current used for the transcutaneous electrical stimulation will be a symmetrical balanced biphasic pulsed current, for 12 sessions, twice a week, for 20 minutes. Qualitative variables will be displayed as frequency and percentage, quantitative variables as mean and standard deviation. Comparison of urgency severity among groups will be performed with a repeated measures ANOVA, considering the effect of the three groups and the four evaluations, and interactions among them.Discussion: The present study aims to contribute evidence for a more in-depth discussion on electrode positioning for electrostimulation used in urgency treatment. It should be emphasized that, based on the possibility of confirming the hypothesis that urgency will decrease in a similar way after both treatments (TTNS and PTES), the PTES will be used as an option for positioning the electrodes alternatively to the tibial nerve region in special populations, such as amputees or people with severe lower limb sensory impairment.Trial registration: Brazilian Registry of Clinical Trials (ReBEC) ID:RBR-9rf33n, date of registration: 17 May 2018.

Objetivo: Investigar a Qualidade de Vida (QV) de mulheres com Incontinência Urinária (IU). Método: Pesquisa do tipo observacional de caráter transversal, com abordagem quantitativa. Aplicou-se uma ficha de anamnese adaptada de Moreno (2009) e Stephenson e O´Connor (2004) para traçar o perfil social e uroginecológico das participantes. A fim de investigar a QV em relação às perdas urinárias, foi utilizado o King’s Health Questionnaire (KHQ) e International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire – Short Form (ICIQ-SF). Os dados foram analisados por meio de estatística descritiva, distribuição de frequência, percentual, média e desvio padrão. Resultados: Participaram do estudo 44 mulheres com IU, com média de idade de 67,1 (±6,1) anos. Observou-se que a QV em relação às perdas urinárias foi considerada de fraca a moderada. Partindo-se do pressuposto que o KHQ não possui uma pontuação geral (os índices variam de 0 a 100), quanto mais próxima a pontuação de 100, pior o desempenho para aquele domínio em específico. Em relação ao questionário ICIQ-SF, o impacto da IU apontou que a média foi de 8,79, classificado como grave, sendo que a maioria, 43%, apresentou uma pontuação muito grave. Conclusão: Os dois instrumentos distintos (ICQ-SF e KHQ) apresentaram valores diferentes sobre análise da QV das mulheres pesquisadas, porém ambos remetem algum impacto negativo sobre a QV.