A study to assess effectiveness of multifaceted bladder training programme on continence and quality of life among parous women with stress urinary incontinenceat selected rural areas, Mangaluru
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Not yet recruiting
- Sponsor
- Enrollment
- 220
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- improvement in quality of life, strength of perineal muscle and decrease in stress urinary incontinence
Study Overview
Brief Summary
women face various health problems during pregnancy and after delivery. One such problem faced during childbirth, and which continues after delivery for lifetime is stress urinary incontinence. This occurs because of weakened pelvic floor muscles during childbirth. stress urinary incontinence affects quality of life of women. It may affect her in doing day to day activities, social activities, travelling, sexual life with husband and many other. Though many women face this problem, they fail to express it or ignore it as young adults and face serious problems like vaginal infection, genital rashes, urinary leakage, bad odor due to urine leakage etc.
Multifaceted bladder training programme in this study includes Kegels exercise, urge suppression technique and lifestyle modification teaching. These techniques are known to increase perineal strength and gain control over urination. So, this study is aimed to assess effectiveness of multifaceted bladder training programme among parous women with stress urinary incontinence.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Stratified randomization
- Masking
- Not Applicable
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 25.00 Year(s) to 40.00 Year(s) (—)
- Sex
- Female
Inclusion Criteria
- •Parous women who are aged between 25-40 years with history of at least one vaginal delivery willing to participate in the study know to read and write Kannada or English available at the time of data collection.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Parous women who are on treatment for incontinence like pharmacological treatment, pelvic floor physiotherapy and surgery for incontinence management chronic co-morbid illness like high-grade uterine prolapse and pelvic cancer History of vaginal delivery in last 12 months Previous participation in PFMT program Pregnant at the time of data collection.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
improvement in quality of life, strength of perineal muscle and decrease in stress urinary incontinence
Time Frame: 12 weeks
Secondary Outcomes
- improving quality of life of women(12 weeks)