NCT05595967

Community Based Health Education for Prevention of Pelvic Floor Dysfunction in Fertile Women in Rural China

Community Based Health Education for Prevention of Pelvic Floor Dysfunction in Fertile Women in Rural China: Study Protocol for a Non-randomised Cluster Controlled Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,139 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Peking University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

According to the experts in charge of the healthcare department in the Liangshan area, Liangshan is one of the largest Yi inhabited areas in China. Influenced by local culture and production history, most women there are multiparas, with more than one child, and their awareness of postpartum recovery is relatively weak. Therefore, the prevalence and incidence rate of pelvic floor dysfunction diseases is high in the Liangshan area. In addition, women in the Liangshan area shoulder the responsibility of taking care of family members, farmland, and livestock. They play an important role in family production, which guarantees the opportunity for other family members to go out to work. However, pelvic floor dysfunction can be manifested by persistent pelvic distension, frequent urination, the urgency of urination, difficulty in urination or defecation, and pain or difficulty in sexual intercourse, which decreases the quality of normal life, and the efficiency of production, posing many psychological problems and family contradictions. There is no research to prove the exact intervention measures that can effectively improve the pelvic floor function of women in Liangshan ethnic minority areas. This study aims to promote the formation of women's healthy living habits and behaviors, improve women's pelvic floor function, and then develop the quality of life and labor output of local women through intervention including health knowledge education and pelvic floor muscle exercise.

Conditions

• Pelvic Floor Dysfunction

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Health education intervention	Both the two session contains modules focusing on heath related knowledge and pelvic floor muscle exercise. Both two session will be delivered by primary healthcare women workers in small groups (about 20 women per group). The local healthcare workers are responsible for making appointment with each participant through group activities. Each participant will receive a healthy calendar practice to record the number of exercises per day which will be supervised by primary healthcare workers. All healthcare workers are required to attend a full-day workshop organized base on the scheme and teaching materials developed by our research team. The contents of the workshop include: (1) introduction of pelvic floor dysfunction; (2) risk factors and prevention of pelvic floor dysfunction; (3) kegel movement; (4) methods of dealing with severe illness; (5) a standard procedure of group activities or one-on-one activities; (6) skills needed for the delivery of health education intervention.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-08-18
• Primary completion: 2023-07-30
• Completion: 2023-08-05
• First posted: 2022-10-27
• Last updated: 2022-11-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China