# Perceptions of a 'Pelvic-Floor Friendly' Group Exercise Class in Women with Urinary Incontinence
## 2 Materials and Methods
### Screening and Entrolment  
Immediately after recruitment, potential participants were emailed the study information and participant requirements. A Voluntary Informed Consent form was also emailed, and participants were allowed to ask any questions via email before returning the consent form. Once voluntary consent was obtained (n = 17), participants were asked to arrange a telephone appointment to undergo pre-grouping enrolment health screening. Any potential participant who was unavailable for telephone screening was able to complete the screening via email. Health screening was conducted using the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q) to ensure each participant was safe to exercise and to minimise the likelihood of UI not being the only health condition limiting group exercise participation. The PAR-Q assesses current levels of physical health and was employed as a screening tool to ensure participants were safe to participate in a group exercise class [57]. Participants were invited to answer 11 questions (for example, \"Do you feel pain in your chest at rest,  
Figure 1: Study procedure. Note. PIVC = Participant Information and Consent Form; PAR-Q = Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire; HAPA-FUIQ = Health Action Process Approach-Female Urinary Incontinence Questionnaire; ICIQ-UI SF = International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire Urinary Incontinence-Short Form; IPAQ-SF = International Physical Activity Questionnaire-Short Form; UI = urinary incontinence.  
during your daily activities, or when you do physical activity?\") with yes/no responses. It was deemed important to only include women in the study who, despite experiencing UI, would otherwise be capable of participating in a group exercise class, thus ensuring any study recommendations aimed at helping increase women's PA participation were likely concerning the impact of UI on PA ability, and not another health condition. During the screening process, the first author confirmed the aims and requirements of the study and how participant data would be handled, including how it would be anonymised. Participants were able to ask any questions and request any additional information before verbal consent to continue in the study was sought. Two participants were lost at the screening stage due to the presence of additional chronic conditions and were removed from the study before group enrolment. Six women were allocated to the intervention group based on their locality, availability and willingness to participate in an in-person group exercise class, with the remaining participants allocated to the online-only control group (n = 9).  
Pre-intervention measures were administered online to both groups at the same time (with a 7-day return window), and the group exercise class and focus group were scheduled for the intervention group to take place two weeks later in a suitable university room. As outlined in Table 1, both groups had similar (non-significant) baseline characteristics, showing participants engaged in PA at levels below current guidance recommendations and UI had a medium-to-high impact on quality of life.