Women's knowledge of performing Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercises (PFME) before and during pregnancy

Deirdre Daly

Trinity College Dublin

Deirdre is an Assistant Professor in Midwifery (0.5 WTE) in Trinity College Dublin (https://www.tcd.ie/dalyde) and Project Manager for the OptiBIRTH Project (0.5 WTE) (http://www.optibirth.eu/optibirth/). She was awarded a 3-year Health Research Board (HRB) Healthcare Professional Fellowship (2012-2014) to undertake her PhD on the urinary incontinence strand of the Maternal health And Maternal Morbidity in Ireland (MAMMI) study (http://www.mammi.ie), a cohort study recruiting 2,800 nulliparous women from three maternity hospitals in Ireland.Her current research projects include the on-going MAMMI study, and related projects on pelvic floor muscle exercises and exercise and activity after childbirth. She is a member of national committees on maternal health, including the severe maternal morbidity group and maternal mortality group. She is one of Ireland's management committee members on the COST IS1405 action BIRTH (2014-2018), Building Intrapartum Research Through Health - an interdisciplinary whole system approach to understanding and contextualising physiological labour and birth (BIRTH) (http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/isch/IS1405).

Abstract

Aim: to explore women’s knowledge of pelvic floor muscle exercises (PFME) before and during pregnancy. Background: Pregnancy is a time of opportunistic health promotion and education. For nulliparous women, pelvic floor... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Deirdre Daly (Trinity College Dublin)
  2. Cinny Cusack (Rotunda Hospital, Dublin)
  3. Cecily Begley (Trinity College Dublin)

Topic Area

Topics: Maternity Care

Session

MC3 » Maternity Care 3 (10:30 - Thursday, 10th November, Lecture Theatre 0.32)

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