Converging on Bladder Health through Design Thinking: From an Ecology of Influence to a Focused Set of Research Questions

Jessica B. Lewis, Sonya S. Brady, Siobhan Sutcliffe, Ariana L. Smith, Elizabeth R. Mueller, Kyle Rudser, Alayne D. Markland, Ann Stapleton, Sheila Gahagan, Shayna D. Cunningham and Prevention of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (PLUS) Research Consortium
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Jessica B. Lewis: Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Sonya S. Brady: Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Siobhan Sutcliffe: Department of Surgery, Division of Public Health Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
Ariana L. Smith: Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Elizabeth R. Mueller: Division of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL 60153, USA
Kyle Rudser: Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Alayne D. Markland: Department of Medicine, Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care, School of Medicine, University of Alabama and the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical CenterBirmingham, AL 35233, USA
Ann Stapleton: Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Disease, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Sheila Gahagan: Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, CA 92161, USA
Shayna D. Cunningham: Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Prevention of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (PLUS) Research Consortium: Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 12, 1-17

Abstract: Lower urinary tract symptoms affect a substantial number of women in the United States (U.S.) and globally. In 2015, the Prevention of Lower Urinary tract Symptoms in women (PLUS) Research Consortium was funded to establish the scientific basis for prevention efforts by (1) understanding healthy bladder function and (2) identifying risk and protective factors for bladder health in women across the lifecourse. This transdisciplinary consortium generated a list of over 600 candidate risk and protective factors for bladder health in women and girls and refined and prioritized these into 29 focused research questions to inform a national longitudinal observational study in the U.S. This paper describes that process using design thinking, a human-centered set of principles and strategies by which innovations are developed, as a framework. Design thinking is an iterative process consisting of five stages: Empathizing with end-users of innovations, Defining core principles girding the work, Ideation of all possible solutions, and rapid-cycle Prototyping and Testing of solutions. Lessons learned are offered to inform future prevention science research endeavors that might benefit from such an approach.

Keywords: lower urinary tract symptom; design thinking; prevention; bladder health; transdisciplinary; public health; women; research question development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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