2022 Volume 18 Issue 1 Pages 26-32
Objective: The purpose of this study was to organize and evaluate a hands-on, multidisciplinary, pelvic floor muscle (PFM) training seminar (the seminar).
Methods: The subjects were 60 health professionals who attended this seminar. We surveyed the status of PFM training instruction and the level of satisfaction with this seminar and compared the degree of confidence in teaching PFM training instruction before and after the course by using questionnaires.
Results: For all three questions of the questionnaire (“Are you confident that you can perform correct contraction of the PFM yourself?”, “Are you confident that you can palpate the PFM from the body surface?”, and “Are you confident in teaching whether the PFM is contracting properly?”), there was a significantly higher degree of confidence after the seminar than before.
Conclusion: The results suggest that a hands-on, multidisciplinary seminar improves the participants’ confidence in teaching PFM training.