This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Intervention). The objectives are as follows:

The purpose of this review is to evaluate the clinical and cost‐effectiveness of intermittent self‐dilatation versus no intervention after urethral stricture surgery in the management of urethral stricture disease in men.

The primary comparison is:

1. intermittent self‐dilatation versus no intervention.

If intermittent self‐dilatation is found to be effective for improving symptoms and health‐related quality of life or reducing the risk of recurrent stricture, then secondary comparisons will be:

2. one regimen of intermittent self‐dilatation (e.g. catheterisation frequency or duration of programme) versus another;

3. one device to perform intermittent self‐dilatation versus another.