Pelvic Floor Muscle Contraction Among Physiotherapy Students Before and After "Women Health" Course

The study aim is to evaluate the ability to correctly contract pelvic floor muscle among physiotherapy students before and after "women health" course. Pelvic floor muscle contraction will be evaluated via transabdominal ultrasound.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Pelvic Floor Muscle Weakness
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: pelvic floor contraction

Detailed Description

Physiotherapy students during their studying in the physiotherapy Bachelor degree program will be examined. Students will be divided into 2 groups according to their year of studying (if they already studied "women health course or not implying 4th year students compared with 1-3 year level students). Each participant will be asked to contract the pelvic floor muscles.

The assessment of pelvic floor contraction will be measured by measuring bladder displacement via abdominal ultrasound. A curved linear array transducer will be placed in the transverse plane immediately suprapubically over the lower abdomen angled at 15-30 degrees from the vertical. Upward movement of the bladder during contraction will be marked as correct contraction. An on screen caliper and measurement tool will be used to measure bladder amount of bladder displacement.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 30
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Israel
  • Haifa, Israel
    • Haifa University, Department of PHysical Therapy

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 40 years (ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: Female

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• healthy students
• willing to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• has been treated before for pelvic floor rehabilitation
• active urinary tract infection
• pregnancy
• previous abdominal surgeries

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: SCREENING
• Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Interventional Model: PARALLEL
• Masking: SINGLE

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: after "women health" course; The participants will be instructed to contract the pelvic floor muscle	Other: pelvic floor contraction; Ultrasound examination will be performed to asses urinary bladder displacement being a marker for pelvic floor muscle function
ACTIVE_COMPARATOR: before "women health" course; The participants will be instructed to contract the pelvic floor muscle	Other: pelvic floor contraction; Ultrasound examination will be performed to asses urinary bladder displacement being a marker for pelvic floor muscle function

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
direction of urinary bladder displacement during contraction	upward or downward displacement of urinary bladder will be measured via diagnostic ultrasound	baseline
urinary bladder displacement in millimeters	bladder displacement will be measured via diagnostic ultrasound using the on screen caliper tool	baseline

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
pelvic floor muscles endurance of contraction in seconds	time of muscle contraction will be measured during the last contraction	baseline

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Haifa

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Ben Ami N, Dar G. What is the most effective verbal instruction for correctly contracting the pelvic floor muscles? Neurourol Urodyn. 2018 Nov;37(8):2904-2910. doi: 10.1002/nau.23810. Epub 2018 Aug 28.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ACTUAL): April 8, 2019
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): June 1, 2019
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): June 1, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 14, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 14, 2019
• First Posted (ACTUAL): April 17, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): July 30, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 29, 2019
• Last Verified: April 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: pelvic diaphragm, Physiotherapy students, education
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Nervous System Diseases; Neurologic Manifestations; Musculoskeletal Diseases; Muscular Diseases; Neuromuscular Manifestations; Muscle Weakness
• Other Study ID Numbers: 123/19

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: YES
• IPD Plan Description: the result of the study will be analysed. a paper will be submitted to international journal with study description including methods, examination protocol results
• IPD Sharing Time Frame: one year
• IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type: STUDY_PROTOCOL

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No