Abstract: Introduction: The prevalence of stress urinary incontinence is high among community-dwelling women, also this condition is not aware of them, women are considering it is a part of aging and a social stigma, no women is letting it out to the physicians and even not taking any management to correct the condition, so this made the investigator to teach the exercise to the mothers suffering from the stress urinary incontinence and to lead the healthy life practicing.
Materials and Methods: Quasi-experimental design was adopted to conduct this study. This study was conducted at Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Mamata Medical College, Khammam. Women of 30-50 years age, in which 30 were in experimental group and 30 were in control group. Systemic random sampling technique was used to collect preliminary data. Revised urinary incontinence scale used to assess the level of stress urinary incontinence among women. Intervention: Pelvic floor exercise intervention for experimental group. Outcome Measure: Stress urinary incontinence among women was measured by using revised urinary incontinence scale.
Results: Subjects who practiced pelvic floor exercise had shown a significant reduction in stress urinary incontinence than the subjects who do not perform pelvic floor exercise. This is proved by âtâ test =2.7 (p< 0.05) it shows that stress urinary incontinence was more effective in reducing stress urinary incontinence of women.
Conclusion: The result supported that pelvic floor exercise was a very effective and practicable exercise for stress urinary incontinence among women.
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