Self-care Pessary Management and Factors Associated With Long-Term Pessary Use

Key Points

• The aim is to explore how well patients can manage pessaries themselves and what factors influence long-term usage.
• Cohort study examining patient self-management of pessaries.
• Evaluation of patient characteristics influencing duration of use.
• Comparison of management types in relation to usage duration.
• Most patients successfully self-managed their pessaries.
• Duration of pessary use correlated with specific patient characteristics.
• Management type did not significantly impact duration of use.

Abstract