Abstract:

Overactive bladder symptoms are disturbing, and overactive bladder can be a very annoying problem since it significantly reduces individuals health-related quality of life. At the beginning of overactive bladder treatment, the individuals are recommended lifestyle changes, behavioral treatments, bladder training, pelvic floor strengthening exercises, electrical stimuli, or combinations of these practices. Antimuscarinic medications are used with the initial therapy or at the following stage. Behavioral interventions include healthy lifestyle behavior changes (regulation of fluid intake, removal of food that causes bladder irritation from the diet, weight control, regulation of defecation, quitting smoking, etc.). The basis of behavioral interventions is to be patient, help the individual to understand the normal and abnormal bladder function, and then to teach strategies to prevent or manage overactive bladder and urge urinary incontinence. With healthy lifestyle behaviors, the individuals control the behaviors affecting their health through the healthy lifestyle behaviors and regulate their daily activities by choosing behaviors according to their own health conditions. According to Pender's Health Promotion Model, healthy lifestyle behaviors are health responsibility, spiritual improvement, interpersonal relations, stress management, exercise, and nutrition. The responsibility of the individual in relation to controlling his/her health is considered as the focus of the model. The model guides the individual, who has the responsibility to control his or her own health, about how to gain/learn the health promoting behaviors. Healthy lifestyle behavior training given to the people with overactive bladder in line with the Health Promotion Model is effective in increasing the success of the treatment. This study was aim to explain the effect of the behavioral treatment interventions and the healthy lifestyle behavior change on the treatment of Pender's Health Promotion Model in the current literature.

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