Seeking Former PTNS & Urgent PC Patients For Paid Interviews

Seeking participants for research study, June 30 – July 6
1.5 hour phone interview
$200 incentive

We are looking for people between the ages of 50 and 80 who meet the following criteria:

Have been diagnosed with Overactive Bladder by a physician
Have completed 12 weeks of PTNS therapy
Returned to their doctor for a follow up which included at least one more PTNS session
Have access to a phone and a computer with internet

If this sounds like you, please respond to the email address below and provide the following information:

Your age, your zip code, when you completed PTNS therapy (date/year), how many sessions of follow up or maintenance PTNS therapy you completed, your contact information.

All information gathered will remain private.

Please email OABresearch@sequence.com

Sequence is a research company in San Francisco working with a medical device client. We are happy to provide more background information once you are selected for the interview.

By Jill Osborne|2017-01-18T12:02:59-08:00June 30th, 2015|Our Blog, Overactive Bladder, Research|Comments Off

About the Author: Jill Osborne

My Google Profile+ Jill Heidi Osborne is the president and founder of the Interstitial Cystitis Network, a health education company dedicated to interstitial cystitis, bladder pain syndrome and other pelvic pain disorders. As the editor and lead author of the ICN and the IC Optimist magazine, Jill is proud of the academic recognition that her website has achieved. The University of London rated the ICN as the top IC website for accuracy, credibility, readability and quality. (Int Urogynecol J - April 2013). Harvard Medical School rated both Medscape and the ICN as the top two websites dedicated to IC. (Urology - Sept 11). For many years, Jill served on the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Panel (US Army) where she collaborated with researchers to evaluate new IC research studies for possible funding. Jill has conducted and/or collaborates on a variety of IC research studies on new therapeutics, pain care, sexuality, the use of medical marijuana, menopause and the cost of treatments, shining a light on issues that influence patient quality of life. An IC support group leader and national spokesperson for the past 20 years, she has represented the IC community on radio, TV shows, at medical conferences. She has written hundreds of articles on IC and its related conditions. Jill has a Bachelors Degree in Pharmacology and a Masters in Psychology, Jill was named Presidential Management Intern (aka Fellowship) while in graduate school. (She was unable to earn her PhD due to the onset of her IC.) She spends the majority of her time providing WELLNESS COACHING for patients in need and developing new, internet based educational and support tools for IC patients, including new live IC Support Group Meetings via Youtube and the “Living with IC” video series. Jill was diagnosed with IC at the age of 32 but first showed symptoms at the age of 12.