Adherence to physiotherapeutic orientation to practice pelvic floor muscle exercises in women with urinary incontinence

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Adherence, urinary incontinence treatment, sexual function; C12.777.934.852; C12.294.644; F01.145.802.975

• Registration Number: RBR-7j5xyf
• Lead Sponsor: niversidade do Estado de Santa Catarina

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2013-08-07
• Last Update Posted: 29 May 2023

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ot yet recruiting
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: Not specified

Inclusion Criteria

Women with symptoms consistent with urinary incontinence (stress, urge or mixed) and older than 18 years and less than 80 years old.

Exclusion Criteria

Exclusion criteria are: virginity, pregnancy, women with gynecological cancer or bladder cancer, women diagnosed with neurological diseases (stroke, multiple sclerosis, parkinsonism, epilepsy, tumor or spinal cord trauma), observed cognitive deficits (minimental <14), difficulties in performing activities of daily life, not agreeing to participate in the study by signing the consent of the ethics committee,those who can not contract adequately pelvic floor during pelvic floor muscle assessment and women who previously held treatment with pelvic floor exercises.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Intervention
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Adherence to pelvic floor exercises. This measure will be obtainned from an exercise diary and a semi-structured questionnaire similar to Chen and Tseng (2009)one, a three-item scale that rated average daily time spent on PFM exercise and the number of<br>daily exercise repetitions. Adherence will be scored by summing the three scores, with a range from 2 to 21. Higher scores indicate stronger adherence to pelvic floor muscle exercise.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
rinary loss will be evaluated throught the International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire - Short Form” (ICIQ-SF). Measures of frequency and ammount of urinary loss will be used, and the questionnaire score that represents how much urinary incontinence affects quality of life.;Sexual Function will be evaluated with the Quociente de Função Sexual Feminino that attributes a score to sexual function.;Pelvic Floor Muscle Strenght will be measured with vaginal palpation and graduated with Oxford Modified Scale by Laycock (1994).