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Tactile Feedback Pelvic Floor Training to Prevent Stress Urinary Incontinence in the 3rd Trimester of Pregnancy

NCT07668128 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 141

Last updated 2026-06-25

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Summary

Pregnancy involves significant physiological changes, such as hormone fluctuations, weight gain, and fetal growth, which can affect multiple organ systems. These changes often lead to symptoms like stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and may worsen existing conditions. SUI affects about one-third of pregnant women and can decrease quality of life.

Pelvic floor muscle exercise (PFME) is a recommended treatment to manage urinary incontinence during pregnancy and postpartum. This study aims to compare the effectiveness of three interventions: routine health education, traditional PFME, and tactile feedback PFME, on reducing SUI symptoms, shortening the second stage of labor, and improving quality of life.

Participants will be enrolled in their third trimester and randomly assigned to one of the three groups, with each intervention lasting 8 weeks. Outcome measures include urinary symptoms (via bladder diary, UDI-6, and IIQ-7), quality of life (via KHQ and WHOQOL-BREF), and labor outcomes (duration of the second stage).

Conditions

  • Stress Urinary Incontinence
  • Kegel's Exercise
  • Sense of Touch
  • Physical Symptoms

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Pelvic floor muscle training

"Four in-person traditional pelvic floor muscle training sessions are scheduled over an eight-week period. The training involves interactive, hands-on teaching that incorporates body positioning, guided breathing, and the 'closing and opening gate' theory. This includes imagery techniques such as buttock squeezing and simulating the action of stopping urine flow to facilitate pelvic floor muscle contractions.

BEHAVIORAL

Basic Health Education Group

One-way, one-time health education leaflets are provided for written teaching, with only explanations but no physical teaching. The content of the health education leaflets includes urinary incontinence during pregnancy, its causes, daily diet, weight control, and Kegel exercise execution methods and movements.

BEHAVIORAL

Tactile pelvic floor muscle training group

There are four physical tactile pelvic floor muscle training courses arranged in eight weeks. The training process adopts two-way interactive practical teaching, using movement positioning and deep breathing to induce adjustment of the upper and lower strength of the pelvic floor, and using finger tactile feedback to feel the muscles lifting and contracting up and down during training.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Far Eastern Memorial Hospital

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
45 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-03-08
Primary Completion
2025-05-05
Completion
2025-05-05

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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