The findings of this study were discussed according to the patho-physiological changes involved with SUI during pregnancy and conservative treatment by using PFME to relieve SUI symptoms. It could provide data that could lead to an improvement in nursing practice. These findings indicate that the specially designed 6-week PFME programme during pregnancy was effective at decreasing the severity of SUI in pregnant women. This finding supported the research hypothesis 1 and 2 of this study and can be explained by increasing the strength of the pelvic floor muscles. The
strength of the pelvic floor muscles corrected the mobility of the bladder neck and the urethra, leading to increased urethral sphincter competence and increased urethral resistance (Newman 2001), thus resulting in decreased frequency and amount of urinary leakage further leading to improvement of the quality of life among the pregnant women in the experimental group which participated in the 6-week PFME programme (Newman 2001).