ReviewLife (Basel, Switzerland)2025
Compliance and Adherence to Pelvic Floor Exercise Therapy in People with Pelvic Floor Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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- A Pelvic Floor Muscle Training-Based Complex Intervention for Community-Dwelling Older Women with Urinary Incontinence: A Feasibility Study and Process Evaluation.Clinical interventions in aging · 2025Trial
- Psychological distress, decision-making, and health behaviors among prostate cancer survivors with urinary incontinence: A scale- and symptom-level network analysis.Asia-Pacific journal of oncology nursing · 2026Article
- Associations of Women's Health Beliefs and Awareness Regarding Urinary Incontinence and Kegel Exercises with Healthy and Sustainable Lifestyle Behaviors.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Pelvic Floor Dysfunction and Rehabilitation in Neurological Disorders: Bridging Pathophysiology With Multidisciplinary Approaches-A Focused Mini-Review.Neurorehabilitation and neural repair · 2026Review
- Comparing Regenerative and Rehabilitative Strategies for Female Stress Urinary Incontinence: Platelet-Rich Plasma vs. Pelvic Floor Muscle Training-A Prospective Study Evaluating Quality of Life.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Barriers to Adherence to Remote Pelvic Floor Muscle Training Among Postpartum Women: A Qualitative Study Guided by the COM-B Model.Patient preference and adherence · 2026Article
- Preferences for postpartum pelvic floor muscle rehabilitation among pregnant women.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Pelvic floor muscle therapy for sexual dysfunction in gynaecological cancer survivors.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Article
- Impact of knowledge, attitudes, symptoms, and self-management of urinary incontinence on the quality of life in middle-aged women: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Impact of Staged Rehabilitation Training on Urinary Incontinence Recovery After Radical Prostatectomy: A Retrospective Analysis.American journal of men's healthArticle
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Abstract
backgroundThe impact of muscle-training treatment on quality of life and functional outcomes in people with pelvic floor dysfunction may be related to adherence rates.
methodsNine electronic databases were searched for studies published up to 15 October 2024. A qualitative synthesis was used to describe the relationship between adherence or compliance with treatment, quality of life, and symptomatic severity. A meta-analysis of data from selected studies was performed that assessed quality of life and symptomatic severity in the short term.
resultsSeven studies with 2190 participants were included. Of these studies, 42% showed rates greater than 80% in terms of adherence. A beneficial effect was found in terms of urinary incontinence severity without statistical differences between the groups (
conclusionsPeople with pelvic floor disorders show high rates of adherence to pelvic floor muscle exercise and experience an improved quality of life in the short term, but more research is needed on the design of homogeneous systems to measure compliance and adherence to exercise-based treatments.
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