Assessing Women’s Knowledge and Practice Regarding Urinary Incontinence and Pelvic Floor Muscles Exercises

Background: Urinary incontinence is a serious problem that deteriorate women’s life at any age specially if neglected so there are many actions to solve this problem the most important is pelvic floor muscles exercises which registered as an effective method for improving urinary function. Aim: The study aimed to evaluate women’s knowledge and practice regarding urinary incontinence and pelvic floor muscles exercises. Study design: A descriptive design was used in this study. Setting: The study was conducted at outpatient clinics of Aga central hospital, Dakahlia Government, Egypt. Sample: A purposive sample was used to select 177 women. Tools: A structural interviewing questionnaire tool was used for data collection; It contained four parts: Part I: Women socio-demographic characteristics. Part II: women’s history. Part III: Women’s knowledge regarding urinary incontinence and pelvic floor muscle exercises. Ⅳ: Women’s reported practice regarding pelvic floor muscle exercises. Results: The study results revealed that, 40.2% of women had poor level of knowledge about urinary incontinence and 64.1% of them had poor knowledge about pelvic floor muscles exercises. Regarding women practice about (kigel 60.2%, squat 87.4%, bridge 71.3%, tabletop 81.1%, bird-dog 66.7%) was unsatisfactory. Conclusions: women had poor level of knowledge regarding urinary incontinence and pelvic floor muscles exercises where, also women were unsatisfied regarding pelvic floor muscles exercises practice. Recommendations: This study recommended implementation of education program to improve women women’s knowledge, practice about urinary incontinence and pelvic floor muscles exercises.