Factors Associated with Pelvic Floor Muscle Strength in Women with Pelvic Floor Dysfunction Assessed by the Brink Scale
| Autor: | Sirirat Sarit-apirak, Jittima Manonai, Umaporn Udomsubpayakul |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Scoring system Pelvic floor Hysterectomy Obstetrics business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Medical record lcsh:R lcsh:Medicine General Medicine Apical compartment pelvic organ prolapse medicine.disease pelvic floor muscle strength Pelvic Floor Muscle Urogynecology medicine.anatomical_structure Pelvic floor dysfunction brink scale medicine pelvic floor dysfunction business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Health Science and Medical Research (JHSMR), Vol 38, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2630-0559 2586-9981 |
| DOI: | 10.31584/jhsmr.201970 |
| Popis: | Objective: (1) to examine the pelvic floor muscle (PFM) function using the Brink scale and (2) to investigate the correlation between potential factors and PFM function.Material and Methods: From January 2011 and December 2014, women with at least one pelvic floor symptom attending the urogynecology clinic were included in a medical record review. Demographic and pelvic floor symptoms were assessed. The Brink scoring system was used to assess the PFM function. The association between factors and Brink scale scores was measured using Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient.Results: Five hundred and seventy-nine women with a mean age of 64.40±10.11 years were included in the analysis. Forty-seven women (8.1%) were unable to contract their pelvic floor muscle at all, while 55 (9.5%) could both powerfully and properly. The mean Brink scale score was 7.82±2.56. Elderly women had a significantly lower score than younger women (mean scores of 7.56±2.60 and 8.08±2.50, respectively) with the mean score in nulliparous and parous women being 8.66±2.63 and 7.76±2.55, respectively (p-value=0.046). A negatively weak correlation was found among those with higher total scores and advancing age (correlation (r)=-0.106), advanced anterior (r=-0.095) and apical compartment (r=-0.105) prolapse (p-value |
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