Kegel Exercises for Stress Urinary Incontinence

Urinary Incontinence,Stress Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effectiveness of Supervised Kegel Exercises Using Bio-feedback Versus Unsupervised Kegel Exercises on Stress Urinary Incontinence: A Quasi-experimental Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05529238
• Other study ID #: Interventional
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 18, 2019
• Est. completion date: August 18, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: February 2023
• Source: Charles Darwin University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 29
• Est. completion date: August 18, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: August 18, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Enuresis
• Urinary Incontinence
• Urinary Incontinence, Stress
• Urinary Incontinence,Stress

Intervention

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

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Australia	Charles Darwin University	Darwin	Northern Territory

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Charles Darwin University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Australia, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Incontinence severity index (ISI) tool	self-reported questionnaire describing frequency/severity of urinary incontinence. the higher the number, the higher the impact.	Week 0
Primary	Incontinence severity (ISI) index tool	self-reported questionnaire describing frequency/severity of urinary incontinence. the higher the number, the higher the impact.	Week 12
Primary	Pelvic floor assessment from physiotherapist	pelvic floor muscle strength	week 0
Primary	Pelvic floor assessment from physiotherapist	pelvic floor muscle strength	week 12