Adherence, urinary incontinence treatment, sexual function
Conditions
Interventions
Both groups (100 participants per group)will participate in three sessions of physical therapy, approximately one hour each one with the following means: practice of pelvic floor muscle exercises with
Behavioural
E02.779.483
Sponsors
Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
Female
Age
18 Years to 80 Years
Inclusion criteria
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: 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.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 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 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
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Urinary 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). | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactCinara Sacomori
Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
Outcome results
None listed