Reliability of pelvic floor muscle strength assessment in healthy continent women

dc.contributorUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
dc.creatorSartori, Dulcegleika Villas Boas [UNESP]
dc.creatorGameiro, Monica Orsi [UNESP]
dc.creatorYamamoto, Hamilto Akihissa [UNESP]
dc.creatorKawano, Paulo Roberto [UNESP]
dc.creatorGuerra, Rodrigo [UNESP]
dc.creatorPadovani, Carlos Roberto [UNESP]
dc.creatorAmaro, João Luiz [UNESP]
dc.date2015-10-21T13:09:38Z
dc.date2015-10-21T13:09:38Z
dc.date2015-04-10
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-12T06:33:59Z
dc.date.available2023-09-12T06:33:59Z
dc.identifierhttp://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2490/15/29
dc.identifierBmc Urology. London: Biomed Central Ltd, v. 15, p. 1-6, 2015.
dc.identifier1471-2490
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/128408
dc.identifier10.1186/s12894-015-0017-6
dc.identifierWOS:000352833400001
dc.identifierWOS000352833400001.pdf
dc.identifier8727897080522289
dc.identifier9989857854355692
dc.identifier0000-0001-8411-5822
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/8777759
dc.descriptionBackground: 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.Methods: 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.Results: 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.Conclusions: 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.
dc.descriptionUniversidade Estadual Paulista, Departamento de Urologia, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu
dc.descriptionUniversidade Estadual Paulista, Departamento de Bioestatística, Instituto de Biociências de Botucatu
dc.format1-6
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherBiomed Central Ltd
dc.relationBmc Urology
dc.relation1.792
dc.relation0,853
dc.rightsAcesso aberto
dc.sourceWeb of Science
dc.subjectGynecological examination
dc.subjectParity
dc.subjectPelvic floor
dc.subjectUrinary Incontinence
dc.subjectReproducibility of results
dc.titleReliability of pelvic floor muscle strength assessment in healthy continent women
dc.typeArtigo


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