ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to test the effects of perineal exercises on ability to control urination; i.e., continence of urine in patients undergoing suprapubic transvesical prostatectomy or transurethral prostatectomy. The study was conducted in surgical ward Mahidol Bampen 2, Siriraj Hospital. The quasi-experimental design was used as the method of procedure. The 30 subjects were equally assigned into one control and one experimental group. The experimental group patients received an extra treatment; i.e., systemically organized nursing instructions on period exercises for both pre and post operative phases. The control group patients received no extra treatment, only what was routinely provided in the ward. A Patient Continence Status Checklist (PCSC) was specially designed for this study. It uses a nominal scale to evaluate patients at their first voiding after the removal of urethral catheter or suprapubic cystostomy tube. It was found that the number of continent patients were significantly higher in the experimental group than in the control group (p<.01). This indicated that the experimental group patients showed higher ability to control urination than the control group patients.