It will be investigate if women with a diaper grant in Aalborg Municipality can reduce diaper size and thus costs for diapers in the municipality through meetings with a incontinence nurse and pelvic floor exercises.
Incontinence is a world wide challenge especially in elderly women. The participation in pelvic floor exercises can to some extent help women with urinary incontinency. In the Municipality of Aalborg in Denmark, the citizens can get a diaper grant, if they are incontinence. The project will be recruiting women with diaper grants and randomly allocate the women to 3 different groups 1) Group training (usual care), 2) Individual training and 3) Individual training with biofeedback in the form of ultrasound. All groups will receive the same incontinence education from the incontinence nurses and physiotherapists. The Women will be offered 6 individual or 10 group base trainings, with increased time between trainings, to increase the participants independency and rely more on home based exercises.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
46
From lying to sitting to active exercises with focus on the pelvic floor
Signe Refsgaard Bech
Aalborg, Denmark
Pelvic floor strength
Change in pelvic floor strength measured through internal palpation with the use of oxford Scale (0-5, where 5 is the highest strength) but transferred to percentage and normalized to baseline values.
Time frame: Change compared to baseline after 12 week intervention
Pelvic floor strength
Change in pelvic floor strength measured through internal palpation with the use of oxford Scale (0-5, where 5 is the highest strength) but transferred to percentage and normalized to baseline values.
Time frame: Change compared to baseline 3 months after end of intervention.
Change in life quality - UDI-6
Urinary Distress Inventory (UDI-6) questionnaire with a total score, in each of the 6 questions the subjects scores between 0 to 3, 0 being Not at all, 1 being A little bit, 2 being Moderately and 3 being Greatly
Time frame: after 12 weeks of exercise and 3 months follow-up
Change in life quality IIQ-7
Incontinence Impact Questionnaire (IIQ-7) questionnaire with a total score, in each of the 7 questions the subjects can score between 0 to 3, 0 being Not at all, 1 being A little bit, 2 being Moderately and 3 being Greatly
Time frame: after 12 weeks of exercise and 3 months follow-up
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