EFFECTIVENESS OF PELVIC FLOOR EXERCISE IN PREVENTION OF URINARY INCONTINENCE AMONG PRIMIPARA POSTNATAL MOTHERS AT BELLAVI RURAL TUMKUR

Pelvic floor exercise also known as kegel exercise, practices in all over the world, it is effective and useful in many gynaecological conditions. It is a simple & effective exercise and it helps to modified the lifestyle and personality structure in both men and women and its cost effective. this is one of the oldest technique practiced according to the various pelvic dysfunctions and its highly recommended along with palliative treatment. Objectives: The objective of kegel exercise is explore its benefits and utilizing day-day life practice, prevention of urinary incontenence in primipara women, modifies the lifestyle and change in personality structure. Methodology: This study conducted in bellavi, Tumkur with sample of 60 postnatal primipara mothers for one week and retested after a week. A pre experimental one group pre-test post test design and a qualitative research approach was carried out on 60 primipara mothers selected by convenient sampling technique to test the effectiveness of structured awareness programme, the data was collected by using structured questionnaire consists of 24 items Result: this study shows that there is a good improvement for the various conditions like urinary incontenence, fast recovery after labour, various pelvic dysfunctions and gynaecological conditions. The study evaluates and found that demographic variables majority 43% of them were in the age group 31-35 years, majority 35% of them PUC and above education, majority 63% of them house wife, majority 81% of hindu region, majority 88% of primipara women. Conclusion: The data were analysed by applying descriptive and inferential statistics, The result of the study indicate that after intervention that was an improvement in the knowledge and they gain good knowledge about pelvic floor exercise. analysis data shows highly significance difference found between pre-test and post-test knowledge score at the level of (p<0.05) the hypothesis is proved and accepted.