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Titel
Reliability of pelvic floor muscle strength assessment in healthy continent women
Ist Teil von
  • BMC urology, 2015-04, Vol.15 (1), p.29-29, Article 29
Ort / Verlag
England: BioMed Central Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
Quelle
EZB-FREE-00999 freely available EZB journals
Beschreibungen/Notizen
  • The aim of this study was to compare pelvic floor muscle (PFM) strength using transvaginal digital palpation in healthy continent women in different age groups, and to compare the inter- and intra-rater reliability of examiners performing anterior and posterior vaginal assessments. We prospectively studied 150 healthy multiparous women. They were distributed into four different groups, according to age range: G1 (n = 37), 30-40 years-old; G2 (n = 39), 41-50 years-old; G3 (n = 39), 51-60 years-old; and G4 (n = 35), older than 60 years-old. PFM strength was evaluated using transvaginal digital palpation in the anterior and posterior areas, by 3 different examiners, and graded using a 5-point Amaro's scale. There was no statistical difference among the different age ranges, for each grade of PFM strength. There was good intra-rater concordance between anterior and posterior PFM assessment, being 64.7%, 63.3%, and 66.7% for examiners A, B, and C, respectively. The intra-rater concordance level was good for each examiner. However, the inter-rater reliability for two examiners varied from moderate to good. Age has no effect on PFM strength profiles, in multiparous continent women. There is good concordance between anterior and posterior vaginal PFM strength assessments, but only moderate to good inter-rater reliability of the measurements between two examiners.
Sprache
Englisch
Identifikatoren
ISSN: 1471-2490
eISSN: 1471-2490
DOI: 10.1186/s12894-015-0017-6
Titel-ID: cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_4397693

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