Short-term outcome measures
At recruitment 17/40 (42.5%) and 15/41 (37%) women in the TG and CG respectively reported POP symptoms (p=0.6). Short-term (6 months postpartum) and long-term (12 months postpartum) results of POP are shown in Table 2.
There were no differences in POP rates between the groups measured at 6 months postpartum leaving 8/36 in the TG and 3/38 from the CG symptomatic (p=0.08). There were no significant differences between groups in the rates of women who were bothered by POP symptoms at short-term with five TG women at both timepoints being bothered by POP, but reduced from nine to one woman being bothered in the CG (p=0.08).