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Antenatal preventative pelvic floor muscle exercise intervention led by midwives to reduce postnatal urinary incontinence (APPEAL) : protocol for a feasibility and pilot cluster randomised controlled trial
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Bick, D., Bishop, J. R., Coleman, T., Dean, S., Edwards, E., Frawley, H., Gkini, E., Hay-Smith, J., Hemming, K., Jones, E., Oborn, E., Pearson, M., Salmon, V., Webb, S. and MacArthur, C. (2022) Antenatal preventative pelvic floor muscle exercise intervention led by midwives to reduce postnatal urinary incontinence (APPEAL) : protocol for a feasibility and pilot cluster randomised controlled trial. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 8 (1). 231. doi:10.1186/s40814-022-01185-y ISSN 2055-5784.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-022-01185-y
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Background: Antenatal pelvic floor muscle exercises (PFME) in women without prior urinary incontinence (UI) are effective in reducing postnatal UI; however, UK midwives often do not provide advice and information to women on undertaking PFME, with evidence that among women who do receive advice, many do not perform PFME. Methods: The primary aim of this feasibility and pilot cluster randomised controlled trial is to provide a potential assessment of the feasibility of undertaking a future definitive trial of a midwifery-led antenatal intervention to support women to perform PFME in pregnancy and reduce UI postnatally. Community midwifery teams in participating NHS sites comprise trial clusters (n = 17). Midwives in teams randomised to the intervention will be trained on how to teach PFME to women and how to support them in undertaking PFME in pregnancy. Women whose community midwifery teams are allocated to control will receive standard antenatal care only. All pregnant women who give birth over a pre-selected sample month who receive antenatal care from participating community midwifery teams (clusters) will be sent a questionnaire at 10–12 weeks postpartum (around 1400–1500 women). Process evaluation data will include interviews with midwives to assess if the intervention could be implemented as planned. Interviews with women in both trial arms will explore their experiences of support from midwives to perform PFME during pregnancy. Data will be stored securely at the Universities of Birmingham and Exeter. Results will be disseminated through publications aimed at maternity service users, clinicians, and academics and inform a potential definitive trial of effectiveness. The West Midlands–Edgbaston Research Ethics Committee approved the study protocol. Discussion: Trial outcomes will determine if criteria to progress to a definitive cluster trial are met. These include women’s questionnaire return rates, prevalence of UI, and other health outcomes as reported by women at 10–12 weeks postpartum. Progress to a definitive trial however is likely to be prevented in the UK context by new perinatal pelvic health service, although this may be possible elsewhere. Trial registration: https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN10833250. Registered 09/03/2020
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine R Medicine > RG Gynecology and obstetrics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Clinical Trials Unit Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Pelvic floor, Pelvic floor -- Diseases -- Exercise therapy, Urinary incontinence -- Exercise therapy, Pregnancy -- Complications , Postnatal care | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Pilot and Feasibility Studies | ||||||
Publisher: | BioMed Central Ltd. | ||||||
ISSN: | 2055-5784 | ||||||
Official Date: | 22 October 2022 | ||||||
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Volume: | 8 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Article Number: | 231 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1186/s40814-022-01185-y | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 November 2022 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 November 2022 | ||||||
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