Adherence and self-efficacy of pregnant women to perform pelvic floor muscle training through a health education application: a feasibility study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) is a treatment that can be used during pregnancy. The main aim of this study was to evaluate adherence to PFMT and self-efficacy using a mobile application (app) named GoMAP. The secondary objective was to evaluate the correlation between self-efficacy and adherence of participants who used the GoMAP app.

Methods

This is a feasibility study. The participants were pregnant women who underwent an 8-week PFMT protocol, provided through a previously validated GoMAP app. To assess self-efficacy, the Self-Efficacy Scale for practicing Pelvic Floor Exercises was applied four times-every two weeks after starting the PFMT program on the GoMAP app. Adherence was evaluated daily by a frequency questionnaire that was completed as the partic

SUBMITTER: Angelico C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12004309 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature