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Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors For The Prevention Of Pelvic Floor Dysfunction:Pender's Health Promotion Model

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İstanbul Üniversitesi Florence Nightingale Hemşirelik Fakültesi

Arch Health Sci Res 2016; 3: 57-65
DOI: 10.17681/hsp.45119
Read: 3276 Downloads: 1105 Published: 18 December 2019

Pelvic floor dysfunction is a common and important health problems, commonly seen in women and may adversely affect the quality of life. It is known that lifestyle changes are effective in the development and management of this problem. Incontinence (urinary / fecal), pelvic organ prolapse, chronic pelvic pain and sexual dysfunction symptoms are related to pelvic floor dysfunction. Healty lifestyle behaviours are effective in development and management of these symptoms. They must be assessed by health professionals primarily. There are some models using for assessment and development of health behaviors by health professionals. Pender's Health Promotion Model is commonly used in the clinic among those. In this article, healty lifestyle behaviors were examined.

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