Kegel Exercises for Stress Urinary Incontinence

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Urinary Incontinence,Stress
• Interventions: Behavioral: biofeedback training

• Registration Number: NCT05529238
• Lead Sponsor: Charles Darwin University

Brief Summary

Study about a targeted group of women suffering from self-reported stress urinary incontinence, attend a Kegel exercise training program. The group was divided into two; supervised and unsupervised. Whilst both groups benefited from initially seeing a women's health physiotherapist for a pelvic floor muscle assessment and a bespoke Kegel exercise program, only the supervised group continued to see the physiotherapist for monthly bio-feedback training. The unsupervised group relied on their own motivation to perform their Kegel exercises as prescribed. At the end of the twelve week program, both groups had a final pelvic floor muscle strength assessment by the physiotherapist to determine any changes and subsequent improvements in urinary incontinence.

Aim : Investigate and compare the efficacy of supervised Kegel exercises with biofeedback on Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI) and Pelvic Floor Muscle Strength (PFMS) compared to unsupervised Kegel exercises.

The primary goal of this study was to determine the effectiveness of supervised Kegel exercises using BT versus unsupervised Kegel exercises without biofeedback training, on SUI. A secondary outcome was to establish whether an improvement was observed in PFMS and subsequently, the effect of this on SUI. It was hypothesized that regular support and visual motivation and direction of BT from the physiotherapist, would provide greater results.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2019-06-18
• Primary Completion: 2019-08-18
• Study Completion: 2019-08-18
• Study First Submitted: 2022-08-26
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-09-01
• Study First Posted: 2022-09-07
• Status Verified: 2023-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-02-03
• Last Update Posted: 2023-02-08

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 29

Inclusion Criteria

• being female
• aged over 18 years
• suffer from SUI (their subjective disclosure was based on a description provided for their reference)
• did not perform Kegel exercises
• be available for duration of 12-week program

Exclusion Criteria

• pregnancy and breastfeeding

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
supervised group during study	biofeedback training	monthly physiotherapist appointment for half of the cohort including pelvic floor examination by physiotherapist including digital palpation and perineometry.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Incontinence severity (ISI) index tool	Week 12	self-reported questionnaire describing frequency/severity of urinary incontinence. the higher the number, the higher the impact.
Pelvic floor assessment from physiotherapist	week 12	pelvic floor muscle strength
Incontinence severity index (ISI) tool	Week 0	self-reported questionnaire describing frequency/severity of urinary incontinence. the higher the number, the higher the impact.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Charles Darwin University; 🇦🇺 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia