CONfidence App
The free-to-download CONfidence app provides practical health advice, self-care tips and links to support for people with bladder and bowel leakage (incontinence) - easily accessible in one single place.
We developed the app in partnership with, and on behalf of, the Bristol Health Partners Bladder and Bowel Confidence (BABCON) Health Integration Team.
The CONfidence app was co-created with people who have lived experience of bladder and bowel leakage, and with national experts and organisations specialising in bladder and bowel care.
How does the app work?
The free-to-use CONfidence app is a UK information hub with over 70 quality-assured articles on key bladder and bowel leakage topics.
The information on the app is for people with bladder and bowel leakage and those who care for them.
The app enables health and care organisations to:
- provide quality-assured health and wellbeing information — instantly available in one convenient place, even when offline
- promote safe self-care — and reduce avoidable demand on services
- signpost services and other sources of support — and make it easier for people to get help
Watch this one-minute video for a quick introduction:
What does it cover?
The CONfidence app provides easy access to over 70 pages of reliable health and wellbeing information - all in one place.
Topics include:
- About: Symptoms, warning signs, feelings, myths, interesting statistics
- Causes: Pregnancy, menopause, medical conditions, medication, later life issues, mental health issues
- Self-help: Life tips, drinking habits and diet, toileting, avoiding triggers, pelvic floor exercises, skin problems, intimacy and sex
- Treatments: Choosing treatments, bladder training, conservative and surgical treatments
- Products: Using and buying products, pads and pants, bed and chair protection, toileting aids, controlling smells, devices
- Practical tips: Work, out and about, travel
- Young people: Challenges, potty training, daytime and nighttime leakage, school, teenagers, family support, children's products
- Carers: Caring for someone, managing leakage, maintaining hygiene, equipment, looking after yourself
- Support: About seeking help, useful websites, helplines and charities, your pharmacist, your GP, community support, continence services, hospitals and specialists
The app's articles are for adults and young people. They're written in plain language and easy to understand.
The content is certified by the Patient Information Forum PIF Tick, the UK's only quality mark for health information.
Who's behind the app?
The app's project leads are Dr Nikki Cotterill, Associate Professor in Continence Care and Florence Nightingale Foundation Leadership Scholar, Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, UWE Bristol and Dr Knut Schroeder, GP and founder of Expert Self Care.
We worked with the following partner organisations:
- Bladder & Bowel UK
- Continence Product Advisor
- ERIC
- Florence Nightingale Foundation
- NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Commissioning Group
- NHS Bristol Urological Institute
- Sirona Care and Health
- University of the West of England (UWE) Bristol
- West of England Academic Health Science Network
Customise the app for your area.
You can customise the app for your local area to make local information easily accessible in one place. Customisation gives you a branded homepage and a signposting page.
CUSTOMISE APPS FOR YOUR LOCAL AREA
User feedback
"I think the app has been really well designed."
"very helpful, useful and relevant information which is delivered in a way that isn't at all judgemental"
"gives people suffering from incontinence the tools to manage their own symptoms"
"will encourage people to ask for help rather than suffering in silence and feeling their situation is hopeless'
Integrate the app into your services.
You can integrate the app into existing service pathways without registration.
Watch this video for healthcare providers:
Get in touch.
Contact us for more information or to discuss local customisation.
Page last reviewed: 29 May 2024