Kegel Exercise-focused Interventions in Elderly Women

Akdeniz University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nursing; Kegel Exercises; Urinary Incontinence

Treatments: Behavioral: Kegel exercise-focused interventions; Other: Home visit and scale evaluations

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04608929

Akdeniz Uni

Details and patient eligibility

About

Purpose: This study was conducted to investigate the effects of Kegel exercises-focused intervention undergone by elderly women diagnosed with urinary incontinence on their incontinence, quality of life and perceived impact level.

Design: The study has a single-blind randomized controlled experimental research design.

Methods: The study was carried out between December 2017 and March 2019 with 60 elderly women registered at the Home Health Unit of a Metropolitan Municipality in Turkey. The women were assigned to the intervention (n=30) and control (n=30) groups. The participants in the intervention group were paid home visits to provide them with individual training and counseling on Kegel exercises. Whether the participants did the exercises was followed up by weekly phone calls. The frequency of urinary incontinence, the amount of urine leaking and the quality of life of the participants and their complaints about incontinence were assessed with the International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire Short Form and questions on the assessment of the perceived impact at the onset of the study (0th week), and at home visits paid at the 6th and 12th weeks after the intervention.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Over the age of 65,
• Being women,
• Diagnosed with UI,
• Being literate,
• Being able to communicate in Turkish,
• Standardized Mini Mental Test result was > 24,
• Agree to participate in research.

Exclusion criteria

• Who had received training on incontinence and Kegel exercises in the last 1 year,
• Had symptoms of urinary tract infection were identified,
• Being treated for UI,
• Having health problems affecting the muscle and nervous system,
• Being not able to perform daily life activities,
• Having pelvic organ prolapse,

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The arm where the Kegel exercise focused intervention is applied

Treatment:

Behavioral: Kegel exercise-focused interventions

Control

Experimental group

Description:

The arm where home follow-up and scale evaluations are made

Treatment:

Other: Home visit and scale evaluations