Bladder training and Kegel exercises for women with urinary complaints living in a rest home

Gerontology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 224-231

  Aslan, Ergul ^a,d   Komurcu, Nuran ^c   Beji, Nezihe Kizilkaya ^a   Yalcin, Onay ^b  

^a Florence Nightingale School of Nursing   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d Florence Nightingale Hemsirelik Yuksekokulu   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bladder training; Kegel exercises; Old age; Urinary incontinence

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BLADDER TRAINING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NOCTURIA; PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE TRAINING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANKIN SCALE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINARY URGENCY; URINE INCONTINENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; NURSING HOMES; PELVIC FLOOR; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TURKEY; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 45549104197     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000133565     Document Type: Article

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