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Effect of Pelvic Floor Muscle Strengthening Exercises on Urinary Incontinence and Quality of Life among Patients after Prostatectomy

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Background: Urinary incontinence remains one of the most significant discomforting complications of
prostatectomy. This clearly has negative quality of life implications for men. Training pelvic floor muscle exercise can
greatly contribute to the prevention and treatment of urinary incontinence. Aim of the study: is to determine the effect
of Pelvic Floor Muscles Strengthening Exercise on urinary incontinence and quality of life among patients after
prostatectomy. Study design: A quasi-experimental research design was used in this study. Settings: The study was
conducted at urology inpatient unit and urology outpatient clinics affiliated to National Medical Institute in Damanhour,
El-Behera Governorate, Egypt. Subjects: A randomly sample of sixty patients, were selected from patients post
prostatectomy, randomly divided into control and intervention group; 30 patients each. Tools: Three tools were used.
Tool I: Socio-demographic and clinical data questionnaire. Tool II: The urinary incontinence questionnaire:
International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire-Urinary Incontinence Short Form (ICIQ-UI SF), Tool III: The
quality of life questionnaire I-QOL. Results: There was a statistically significant difference between the control and
intervention group of prostatectomy patients in relation to the degree of urinary incontinence and quality of life after
three months from implementation of pelvic floor muscle strengthening exercises Conclusion: it can be concluded that
performing of pelvic floor muscle strengthening exercise had statistical significant improvement on degree of urinary
incontinence and quality of life among patients post prostatectomy than the control. Recommendations: The nurses
must emphasize to provide continuous follow up care for reinforcing the importance of the pelvic floor muscles
exercises practice and stimulating the motivation to persist in the urinary incontinence management.

DOI

10.21608/ejhc.2020.222518

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Pelvic Floor Muscle Strengthening Exercise, Urinary incontinence, quality of life, Prostatectomy

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Fikry Mohamed Abd Elrasol

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Assistant professor of Medical-Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Damanhour University, Egypt.

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Ezzat Eltohamy Mohamed

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Lecturer of Gerontological Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Damanhour University, Egypt.

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Gouda Mohamed Elshiekh

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Lecturer of Gerontological Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Damanhour University, Egypt.

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11

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4

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18689

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2020-12-01

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2022-03-02

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2020-12-01

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1,061

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1687-9546

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3009-6766

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Egyptian Journal of Health Care

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Effect of Pelvic Floor Muscle Strengthening Exercises on Urinary Incontinence and Quality of Life among Patients after Prostatectomy

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22 Jan 2023