ArticleJournal of personalized medicine2022
Women's Experiences with Compliance with Pelvic Floor Home Exercise Therapy and Lifestyle Changes for Pelvic Organ Prolapse Symptoms: A Qualitative Study.
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- Does the Contractile Capability of Pelvic Floor Muscles Improve with Knowledge Acquisition and Verbal Instructions in Healthy Women? A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Beyond Biofeedback: Expanding Perspectives on Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy for Evacuation Disorders.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2026Article
- Facilitators and Barriers to Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercise Among Patients with Pelvic Floor Dysfunction: A Meta-Synthesis.International urogynecology journal · 2026Review
- Optimizing remote access to Urinary Incontinence Treatments for Women Veterans: Identifying salient features of participants' experiences with two delivery modalities.Continence (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026Article
- Preferences for postpartum pelvic floor muscle rehabilitation among pregnant women.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Toward Pelvic Floor Dysfunction Among Postpartum and Postmenopausal Women: A Cross-sectional Study.International urogynecology journal · 2025Article
- Compliance and Adherence to Pelvic Floor Exercise Therapy in People with Pelvic Floor Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Quality of Life after Treatment for Pelvic Organ Prolapse in Real-World Study: Recommendations, Vaginal Pessary, and Surgery.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Observational
- Prevalence of urinary incontinence and its associated predictor and Self-care behavior among the elderly females in Chaiyaphum Province, Thailand: Cross-sectional study.Journal of education and health promotion · 2024Article
- Barriers and enablers of pelvic floor rehabilitation behaviours in pregnant women with stress urinary incontinence: a qualitative analysis using the theoretical domains framework.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
- Personalized Nursing and Health Care: Advancing Positive Patient Outcomes in Complex and Multilevel Care Environments.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Article
- Online Information on Painful Sexual Dysfunction in Women: Quality Analysis of Websites in SPANISH about Dyspareunia, Vaginismus and Vulvodynia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
In this study, we aimed to investigate women's experiences with compliance with prescribed pelvic floor muscle exercises (PFMEs) and lifestyle changes 6-12 months after completing an individual pelvic floor physiotherapy program. This study was targeted to understanding factors affecting adherence to PFMEs and lifestyle changes to deal with pelvic organ prolapse (POP) symptoms. We designed this research as a descriptive qualitative study. We conducted this study from December 2016 to September 2017 in Madrid, Spain. Twenty-six women with symptomatic POP selected using a purposive sampling method participated in six focus groups and three one-to-one semi-structured interviews. Three authors coded and inductively analyzed transcript contents with iterative theme development. A thematic analysis revealed three main themes: (1) symptoms change; (2) PFMEs and lifestyle changes performance; and (3) a health practitioner-patient relationship. Women identified as adherent reported improvement in physical symptoms and emotional and general state as a result of the new knowledge achieved. Fear also promoted compliance with performing PFMEs and adopting lifestyle changes. Likewise, PFMEs preference and routine, integration of PFMEs and lifestyle changes into activities of daily living, support guides, therapeutic alliance, individual supervision, follow-up, and feedback were also identified as adherence facilitators. One of the biggest barriers that we identified was responsibility. Compliance with prescribed PFMEs and lifestyle changes can be improved with effective individual, women-centered, and supervised physiotherapy programs reducing symptoms, including exercises aligned with women's preferences that are easy to integrate in daily living, promoting knowledge and awareness of their condition, providing written or electronic guidelines, with routine follow-up visits offering both positive feedback and clear and consistent messages, and enhancing therapeutic alliance.
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