Revalência de incontinência urinária em mulheres praticantes de jump “nas academias” da cidade de Trindade-Go

Abstract

Introduction: Urinary Incontinence is a disease characterized by the involuntary loss of urine, which is caused by an overweight applied on the pelvic floor. This pelvic floor’s function is supporting the organs and their contents. Based on that, this work’s objective is investigating the predominance of Urinary Incontinence (UI) in women who practice trampoline classes at the gym in Trindade – GO. Methodology: this research is a descriptive, transversal and quantitative study and it was accomplished within July and September 2016. The sample is composed by thirty-one (31) women, ranging from eighteen (18) to fourty-seven (47) years old, who used to take up trampoline classes at the gyms in Trindade – GO. The UI level was evaluated using a questionnaire form developed specially for evaluating UI and adopted by the International Consulationon Incontinence Questionnaire Short Form (ICIQ-SF).Results: It can be stated by the results that among the interviewed participants 19,35% of the women did not have UI; 35,48% of the women had UI and they got it after practicing trampoline classes. Finally, 45,16% of the interviewed women had UI and they got it before practicing trampoline classes.Conclusion: Considering those data, it can be summed up that there is a high number of women that practice trampoline classes who have UI. Although the sample may be composed by a small number of women, the data showed in the results proved to be in accordance with the searched literature, which informs that women who work out by high-impact exercises claimed to have loss of bladder control and urine loss.