Stress and Anxiety Effects on Overactive Bladder

R01DK129624 studies the impacts of psychological stress and anxiety on acute bladder sensitivity, urinary symptoms, and compensatory bladder behaviors in men and women with OAB in a controlled laboratory setting and everyday situations.  The project uses cutting edge methods for measuring bladder sensations and responses to acute, invoked laboratory psychological stress as well as state-of-the-art techniques in Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA).