Movement-Based Pelvic Health Education for Women in Underserved Communities

Not Applicable

Active, not recruiting

• Conditions: Pelvic Floor Muscle Weakness; Pelvic Pain
• Interventions: Other: Movement-based pelvic health education

• Registration Number: NCT05569694
• Lead Sponsor: Arkansas Colleges of Health Education

Brief Summary

It is essential to provide the community with evidenced-based care to optimize healthcare outcomes; more specifically, women in underserved communities undergoing health disparities in rehabilitation. To address this issue, a movement-based pelvic health education course was developed to assess women's knowledge and adherence of the exercises in an underserved region in Western Arkansas.The purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness of a single movement-based pelvic health education session on general pelvic health knowledge, underactive pelvic floor, and overactive pelvic floor knowledge and adherence to performing pelvic exercises in women.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-01-25
• Study First Submitted: 2022-10-03
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-10-04
• Study First Posted: 2022-10-06
• Primary Completion: 2022-12-31
• Status Verified: 2023-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-07-21
• Last Update Posted: 2023-07-24
• Study Completion: 2024-12-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 38

Inclusion Criteria

• 18 years of age or older
• female-identifying
• ability to speak English or provide own translator
• ability to complete the questionnaires
• clearance from physician if pregnant
• access to internet

Exclusion Criteria

-Experiencing pelvic pain and/or pregnant and does not have physician clearance to participate

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Women in the Community	Movement-based pelvic health education	Movement-Based pelvic health education

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Knowledge Acquisition	1 month	Participants complete a questionnaire pre, post, and one-month following the intervention. The questionnaire includes true/false questions: 10 general knowledge, 10 underactive pelvic floor, 10 overactive pelvic floor. The more correct answers the participant submits, the higher the score. Answer options: True, False, I don't know.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Exercise Adherence	1 month	Participants complete a questionnaire pre-session and one-month following the intervention. The questionnaire included questions related to the number of times per week the participant implemented pelvic floor movements and options were: Never less than once a week about once a week 2 or 3 times a week at least once a day twice on most days twice each day

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Arkansas Colleges of Health Education; 🇺🇸 Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States