245149

Assessing Women’s Knowledge and Practice Regarding Urinary Incontinence and Pelvic Floor Muscles Exercises

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Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

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Community Health Nursing.

Abstract

Background: Urinary incontinence is a serious problem that deteriorate women's life at any age specially if neglected so there are many actions to solve this problem the most important is pelvic floor muscles exercises which registered as an effective method for improving urinary function. Aim: The study aimed to evaluate women's knowledge and practice regarding urinary incontinence and pelvic floor muscles exercises. Study design: A descriptive design was used in this study. Setting: The study was conducted at outpatient clinics of Aga central hospital, Dakahlia Government, Egypt. Sample: A purposive sample was used to select 177 women. Tools: A structural interviewing questionnaire tool was used for data collection; It contained four parts: Part I: Women socio-demographic characteristics. Part II: women's history. Part III: Women's knowledge regarding urinary incontinence and pelvic floor muscle exercises. Ⅳ: Women's reported practice regarding pelvic floor muscle exercises. Results: The study results revealed that, 40.2% of women had poor level of knowledge about urinary incontinence and 64.1% of them had poor knowledge about pelvic floor muscles exercises. Regarding women practice about (kigel 60.2%, squat 87.4%, bridge 71.3%, tabletop 81.1%, bird-dog 66.7%) was unsatisfactory. Conclusions: women had poor level of knowledge regarding urinary incontinence and pelvic floor muscles exercises where, also women were unsatisfied regarding pelvic floor muscles exercises practice. Recommendations: This study recommended implementation of education program to improve women women's knowledge, practice about urinary incontinence and pelvic floor muscles exercises.

DOI

10.21608/hijnrp.2022.139388.1026

Keywords

Urinary incontinence, Pelvic floor muscles exercises, Women's health

Authors

First Name

walaa

Last Name

Moustafa

MiddleName

Efat

Affiliation

faculty of nursing Helwan university

Email

prophetmohamed84@gmail.com

City

Mansoura

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Volume

1

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1

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34713

Issue Date

2022-06-01

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2022-05-18

Publish Date

2022-06-01

Page Start

189

Page End

206

Print ISSN

2735-5799

Online ISSN

2786-0183

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12

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Scientific Research Periodical

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1,926

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Helwan International Journal for Nursing Research and Practice

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https://hijnrp.journals.ekb.eg/

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Assessing Women’s Knowledge and Practice Regarding Urinary Incontinence and Pelvic Floor Muscles Exercises

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Created At

23 Jan 2023