Maintaining A Long-Term Practice of Daily Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercises: What Do Childbearing Women Think?
Susan M Yount-TavenerRebecca A FayPublished in: Journal of midwifery & women's health (2024)
The themes were congruent with the limited body of qualitative literature on experience with PFMT exercises. This study was able to identify areas of need in the US maternal health care system to help childbearing people adopt daily PFMT, such as (1) inadequate parental leave and childcare support, (2) no formalized education related to UI and PFMT and a lack of pelvic health promotion, (3) lacking prioritization of long-term PFMT, and (4) the need to dispel the acceptance that UI postbirth is normal. Health care providers should prioritize interactive education, emphasizing how to correctly perform PFMT and the importance and effectiveness of integrating clinical support. To adequately encompass pelvic floor health care and education up to one year postbirth, changes are needed to the US perinatal health care system, providing sufficient insurance reimbursement and parental social support programs.
Keyphrases
- healthcare
- social support
- health promotion
- systematic review
- quality improvement
- depressive symptoms
- randomized controlled trial
- physical activity
- resistance training
- public health
- pregnant women
- primary care
- polycystic ovary syndrome
- skeletal muscle
- rectal cancer
- health insurance
- type diabetes
- metabolic syndrome
- body mass index
- health information
- preterm birth
- long term care
- cervical cancer screening