The present study entitled “A study to assess the effectiveness of pelvic floor exercise for stress urinary incontinence among women in selected communities at Coimbatore” was undertaken during the year 2011-2012 in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Science in Nursing at KMCH College of Nursing, Coimbatore. This is affiliated to The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Chennai.
OBJECTIVE:
Objectives are as follows, assess the level of stress urinary incontinence among women, determine the effectiveness of pelvic floor exercise for stress urinary incontinence among women, and associate the selected demographic variables and clinical profile with stress
urinary incontinence among women.
DESIGN:
True experimental, non equivalent pre test post test design.
SETTING: Kalapatti and Veeriampalayam community at Coimbatore.
SAMPLE: Women of 30-50 yrs age, in which 31 were in experimental group and 25 were in control group. SAMPLING TECHNIQUE: Systemic random sampling.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK:
Ernwstine Wieden Bach’s Helping Art of Clinical Nursing Theory.
DATA COLLECTION:
Revised urinary incontinence scale to assess the level of stress urinary incontinence among women.
INTERVENTION: Pelvic floor exercise intervention for experimental group.
OUTCOME MEASURE: Stress urinary incontinence among women was measured by using revised urinary incontinence scale.
RESULTS:
Subjects who practice pelvic floor exercise had shown significant reduction in stress urinary incontinence than the subjects who do not perform pelvic floor exercise. This is proved by ‘t‘ test =2.9 (p< 0.05) it shows that the stress urinary incontinence was more effective in reducing stress urinary incontinence of women.
CONCLUSION:
The result supported that pelvic floor exercise was a very effective and practicable exercise for stress urinary incontinence among women
