Effects of Pelvic Floor Muscle Training and Diaphragmatic Breathing Exercise on Body Posture

Effects of Pelvic Floor Muscle Training and Diaphragmatic Breathing Exercise Via Telerehabilitation on Body Posture and Quality of Life Outcomes

This study; It will be done in order to show evidence of the effects of pelvic floor muscle training and diaphragmatic breathing exercise via telerehabilitation on body posture and quality of life in healthy individuals. International Physical Activity Quastionnaire Short Form (IPAQ), Pelvic Floor Impact Quastionnaire Short Form (PFIQ-7), 36-Item Short Form Survey(SF-36) and New York Posture Rating Chart will be applied.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Quality of Life; Telerehabilitation; Body Posture; Pelvic Floor Muscle Training; Diaphragmatic Breathing
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: exercises

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 36
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Tülay Sevim; Phone Number: +905349787081; Email: tulayulkusevim@gmail.com

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Istanbul, Turkey
    • Recruiting
    • Tülay Ülkü SEVİM
    • Contact: Tülay SEVİM; Email: tulayulkusevim@gmail.com

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 65 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: Female

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Body Mass Index between 18-25
• Being a woman over the age of 18

Exclusion Criteria:

• obstructive or restrictive lung disease
• diagnosed with urinary incontinence or pelvic organ prolapse
• pelvic pain
• history of pelvic surgery
• Any history of spinal, thoracic or abdominal surgery
• To smoke
• cardiac, neurological and rheumatological disease
• Congenital deformity or previous history of surgery in the spine and thorax
• endocrine and metabolic disease
• psychiatric disorders
• cardiological disorders
• malignancy
• Doing regular physical activity or sports for the last 3 months

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Study Group; Pelvic floor muscle exercises and diaphragmatic breathing exercises will be performed 3 times a week for 12 weeks. New York Posture Rating Scale and SF-36 will be applied before and after the study. International Physical Activity Questionnaire and Pelvic Floor Impact Questionnaire will be applied before the study.	Other: exercises; Pelvic floor muscle exercises and diaphragmatic breathing exercise
No Intervention: Control Group; No intervention. New York Posture Rating Scale and SF-36 will be applied before and after the study. International Physical Activity Questionnaire and Pelvic Floor Impact Questionnaire will be applied before the study.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Assessment of Quality of Life	36-Item Short Form Survey (SF-36). On the scale, higher scores mean a better outcome. The SF-36 consists of eight scaled scores, which are the weighted sums of the questions in their section. Each scale is directly transformed into a 0-100 scale on the assumption that each question carries equal weight.	baseline
Assessment of Body Posture	New York Posture Rating Chart. On the scale, each body segment was scored 5 (correct posture), 3 (slight deviation), or 1 (pronounced deviation). The scores of the body alignment segments are summed, allowing a range of overall score between 13 and 65. Higher scores mean a better outcome.	baseline

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Assessment of Physical Activity Level	International Physical Activity Questionnaire-short form (IPAQ-SF) The questionnaire records the activity of four intensity levels: 1) vigorous-intensity activity such as aerobics, 2) moderate-intensity activity such as leisure cycling, 3) walking, and 4) sitting.	baseline
Assessment of Pelvic Floor Muscle Function	Pelvic Floor Impact Questionnaire (PFIQ). The PFIQ 7 has 7 questions and each question has 3 separate responses. The response to each item of satisfaction, impact and worry was rated from 3 (quite a bit) to 0 (not at all) for the PFIQ-7. The mean value for all the answered items within the corresponding scale (possible value 0-3) was estimated, then multiplied by (100/3) to obtain the scale score, range 0-100. We added the scores from the 3 scales together to obtain the PFIQ 7 summary score (range 0-300).For the scale, a higher score indicates worse health status.	baseline

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi
• Investigators: Study Director: Meltem VURAL, Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): December 1, 2021
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): May 30, 2022
• Study Completion (Anticipated): May 30, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 28, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 5, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): June 8, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): June 8, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 5, 2022
• Last Verified: May 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Respiration Disorders; Respiratory Aspiration
• Other Study ID Numbers: postureandlife

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No

Drug and device information, study documents

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