Implications for Future Practice
Given the high incidence of UI during pregnancy and post partum and its severe impact on quality of life, it is critical in clinical practice to provide effective PFMT guidance for pregnant women, which is a crucial component of the primary prevention of UI. This study showed that oral PFMT instructions in conjunction with an app-based PFMT program were more efficient than oral PFMT instructions alone in reducing UI symptom severity and enhancing quality of life in the short term, indicating that the UIW app may be an effective adjunctive tool and could be routinely offered to all pregnant women. However, this was a single-center study, limiting our findings’ generalizability. Therefore, future multicenter studies should be conducted to replicate and extend our findings. In addition, future studies should track study participants for a longer period to provide evidence on whether the effects of the app-based PFMT intervention were sustained.