Kegel Exercises for Stress Urinary Incontinence

NCT ID: NCT05529238

Last Updated: 2023-02-08

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 29 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2019-06-18
• Study Completion Date: 2019-08-18

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.

Conditions

Urinary Incontinence,Stress

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

supervised group during study

monthly physiotherapist appointment for half of the cohort including pelvic floor examination by physiotherapist including digital palpation and perineometry.

Group Type: OTHER

biofeedback training

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

participants received biofeedback training for kegel exercises in the supervised group. the unsupervised group practised their Kegel exercises at home

unsupervised group during study

No intervention. Participants to practice kegel exercises at home.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

biofeedback training

participants received biofeedback training for kegel exercises in the supervised group. the unsupervised group practised their Kegel exercises at home

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Charles Darwin University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Donelle Cross

Lecturer

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Charles Darwin University

Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Countries

Australia

Other Identifiers

Interventional

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id