EFFECT ON QUALITY OF LIFE AFTER PROSTATECTOMY

TC Erciyes University

Status: Completed

Conditions: URINARY INCONTINENCE; PROSTATECTOMY

Treatments: Other: PELVIC FLOOR EXERCISES

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05700487

PROSTATK

Details and patient eligibility

About

Aim: This study was conducted to determine the effect of pelvic floor exercises (PTE) on urinary incontinence and quality of life (QOL) after radical prostatectomy (RP).

Methods: This randomized controlled, single-blind, experimental study was completed with a total of 33 RP patients, 18 of whom were interventions, and 15 were controls. The intervention group was given pelvic floor exercises (PTE) training in the preoperative period, regular PTE was performed three times a day for six months in the postoperative period, and the continuity of the exercises was checked by telephone. On the other hand, no intervention was applied to the control group other than routine treatment.

Enrollment: 33 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 40 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being literate,
• Having the mental competence to understand the questions,
• Radical prostatectomy was performed due to the diagnosis of localized prostate cancer,
• Continuing post-operative follow-up,
• No incontinence problem before surgery,
• Anatomically free of genito-urinary system pathology,
• Those who volunteered to participate in the study were recruited.

Exclusion criteria

• With bladder insufficiency (dysfunction),

• Individuals with a different type of incontinence problem such as stress incontinence, neurogenic bladder were not included in the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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33 participants in 2 patient groups

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients in this group continued their routine medicaltreatmentprogram without any treatment

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

Pelvic floor exercises (PTE) training in the preoperative period, regular PTE was performed three times a day for 6 months in the postoperative period, and the continuity of the exercises was checked by telephone

Treatment:

Other: PELVIC FLOOR EXERCISES