Telehealth exercise for continence after gynaecological cancer treatment (TELE-CONNECT): a protocol for a co-designed pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Urinary incontinence (UI) is the most prevalent pelvic floor disorder following treatment for gynaecological cancer with a distressing impact on quality-of-life in survivors. Physiotherapist-supervised pelvic floor muscle (PFM) training is recommended as the first-line intervention for UI in community-dwelling women. However, it is not known if this intervention is effective in women following treatment for gynaecological cancer, nor whether PFM training can be delivered entirely remotely. The primary aim of this study is to investigate if a telehealth-delivered PFM training program incorporating a novel biofeedback device reduces UI compared with usual care, following gynaecological cancer.

Methods

This is a pragmatic, two-arm parallel-group, stratified superiori

SUBMITTER: Frawley HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11430120 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature