Operations and Pelvic Muscle Training in the Management of Apical Support Loss: The OPTIMAL Trial
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Official title
Operations and Pelvic Muscle Training in the Management of Apical Support Loss: The OPTIMAL Trial: A Randomized Trial of Sacrospinous Ligament Fixation (SSLF) Versus Uterosacral Ligament Suspension (ULS) With and Without Perioperative Behavioral Therapy/Pelvic Muscle Training
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00597935
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Lead sponsor
- NICHD Pelvic Floor Disorders Network
- Network
- Enrollment
- 374 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- SSLF Procedure
- ULS Procedure
- PMT Behavioral
Procedure · Behavioral
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- Female
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Jan 31, 2008
- Primary completion
- Jun 30, 2013
- Completion
- Jun 30, 2013
- Last update posted
- Oct 21, 2020
2008 – 2013
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 9
- U.S. states
- 7
- U.S. cities
- 9
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Alabama at Birmingham | Birmingham | Alabama | 35233-7333 | — |
| Kaiser Permanente Bellflower | Bellflower | California | 90706 | — |
| University of California, San Diego Medical Center | La Jolla | California | 92037 | — |
| Kaiser Permanente | San Diego | California | 92120 | — |
| Loyola University Medical Center | Maywood | Illinois | 60153 | — |
| Duke University | Durham | North Carolina | 27710 | — |
| Cleveland Clinic | Cleveland | Ohio | 44195 | — |
| University of Texas Southwestern | Dallas | Texas | 75390 | — |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City | Utah | 84132 | — |
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- Public field values for ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00597935, including study identification, conditions, interventions, eligibility (age, sex, healthy volunteer), timeline, and U.S. site list.
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- Last update posted Oct 21, 2020 · Synced Jul 22, 2026
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