title: Therapeutic education and intermittent self-catheterization: recommendations for an educational program and a literature review.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To review the literature and to clarify the recommendations for therapeutic education programs for intermittent self-catheterization.
  
  
  METHODS
  The literature on Medline, Pubmed, and Cochrane Library, with specific keywords, as well as the recommendations based on expert consensus.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Clean intermittent self-catheterization (CICS) is the gold standard for managing chronic urinary retention, which allows the patients to improve their quality of life and to reduce the complications of upper urinary tract infections. Patient education needs to have a structured procedure in order to evaluate the ability to understand, accept and perform CISC.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Teaching self-catheterization is now well known; nevertheless, the effectiveness of CISC educational therapeutic programs remains to be demonstrated.
authors.affiliation: UR6/UPMC, service de neuro-urologie et d'explorations périnéales, hôpital Tenon, Paris cedex, France. frederique.lebreton@tnn.aphp.fr
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Le Breton
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Guinet
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Verollet
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jousse
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Amarenco
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D057928:Intermittent Urethral Catheterization; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D016055:Urinary Retention / Q000628:therapy*