Educational Intervention Related to Pelvic Floor Care in Females in Sport: ACTITUD

NCT ID: NCT06355297

Last Updated: 2024-10-15

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 400 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-04-09
• Study Completion Date: 2024-06-20

Brief Summary

Pelvic floor dysfunctions (PFD) are especially prevalent among females who practice and compete in sport. One of the main reason is the great physical effort required to achieve the maximal sports performance. As conservational management, increasing the females' information is an important research line. However, gender stereotypes, embarrassment and normalization among females make it difficult to seek professional care. In this situation, prevention or management of PFD is limited.

New technologies could facilitate engaging virtual educational approaches. This study will evaluate the effects of an educational intervention compounded by three sessions (60 min of duration) with one week apart, about PFD, habits related with it, and existing gender stereotypes.

To this end, all female who practice and compete in any sport in Spain will be invited to attend an educational online intervention with theoretical-practical content about PFD. As eligibility criteria, participants should train and compete in any sport, and have federative license from regional or national sports federation at the moment of the start of the study. Participants should have at least 16 years old. The investigators expect 400 athletes to fulfill the questionnaires, of which the investigators expect 200 to attend the educational intervention. Before the educational intervention, all females will reply an anonymous questionnaire to inform about their knowledge of PFD, daily practices related to PFD, influencing gender stereotypes and PFD self-reported diagnosis. One month later, this questionnaire will be sent to females (both athletes who attended the educational intervention or not) to describe changes after attending the online educational intervention and compared to those females who did not attend it. The main outcomes will be the level of knowledge about PF, the number of habits potentially related to PFD, and score of gender stereotyped beliefs. As an additional outcome, it will be considered the PFD self-reported symptomatology.

Detailed Description

The educational intervention consisted on three 60-minutes online sessions, organized as follows:

Session 1: anatomical information about pelvic floor and exercises about pelvic floor consciousness; Session 2: function and dysfunction of pelvic floor and exercises related; Session 3: risk factor for pelvic floor dysfunctions and exercises to strengthen the pelvic floor musculature.

Conditions

Pelvic Floor Disorders

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Education about PF

Education about PF. Participants will attend three 60-minutes educational online sessions.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Education about pelvic floor

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The three educational sessions will last 60 minutes, as follows: session1, anatomy of pelvic floor; session2, function and dysfunction of pelvic floor; session3, risk factor for pelvic floor dysfunctions.

Control

Despite the fact that all females will be invited to participate in the study, those who did not attend the educational sessions will be considered as control group. These participants will not receive any educational session or information about PF prior to be evaluated.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Education about pelvic floor

The three educational sessions will last 60 minutes, as follows: session1, anatomy of pelvic floor; session2, function and dysfunction of pelvic floor; session3, risk factor for pelvic floor dysfunctions.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• To train and compete in any of the sport modality.
• To have federative license from a regional or national sport federation in the season when study starts.

Exclusion Criteria

• Non applicable

• Minimum Eligible Age: 16 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of the Balearic Islands

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Natalia Romero-Franco, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of the Balearic Islands

Locations

University of the Balearic Islands

Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

Countries

Spain

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Other Identifiers

124CER19.

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id