Kegel Exercise Pregnant Training mHealth App

University of Putra Malaysia (UPM)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Pregnancy Related

Urinary Incontinence

Treatments

Device: Kegel Exercise Pregnancy Training - app

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04762433

NMRR-19-471-45606

Details and patient eligibility

About

This pilot feasibility study protocol is to assess the feasibility in the future definitive trial that is the Kegel Exercise Pregnancy Training app (KEPT-app) trial. The aim of this study as follows: (1) to evaluate the recruitment capability of the pregnant women, (2) to evaluate the acceptability of the KEPT-app, (3) to determine the implementation feasibility of using KEPT-app, and (4) to determine the preliminary effectiveness of KEPT-app to improve PFMT skills of pregnant women.

Full description

The aim of this pilot feasibility study as follows: (1) to evaluate the recruitment capability of the pregnant women, (2) to evaluate the acceptability of the KEPT-app, (3) to determine the implementation feasibility of using KEPT-app, and (4) to determine the preliminary effectiveness of KEPT-app to improve PFMT skills of pregnant women.

Enrollment

26 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18 to 55 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Pregnant women at 26-27 weeks of gestation, any parity with either stress UI or mixed UI will be included.
Participants are Malaysian citizens who consist of Malay, Chinese, Indian, and native ethnicities.

Exclusion criteria

pregnant women with a chronic medical problem(s) before pregnancy, complicated pregnancies or conditions which are not advisable to practise PFMT will be excluded.