Voiding School as a Treatment of Children's Day-time Incontinence or Enuresis
Daytime Wetting, Enuresis, Functional Incontinence
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Daytime Wetting focused on measuring Intervention, Implementation, Children, Urotherapy
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- The child is eligible for participating the study, if he or she has day-time incontinence or enuresis weekly, provided that following inclusion criteria are met: 1) there is no organic cause for incontinence, 2) he or she have no diagnosed behavioral disorders, and 3) the child and the parents are able to communicate in Finnish.
Exclusion Criteria:
- No specified exclusion criteria were set.
Sites / Locations
- Child welfare clinics
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
Intervention group
Usual care group
Voiding school (VS) is based on urotherapy guidelines for educating children with incontinence highlighting regular voiding habits and life-style advice. Learning by doing, understanding the body function by concrete example videos and pictures, and discussing are the main teaching methods.The intervention is delivered face-to-face in groups of 4-6 children. The VS includes three sessions one months apart. Duration of each VS session is three hours. The intervention is delivered with detailed manual. The intervention is provided by an urotherapist and a public-health nurse.
The control group receives treatment according to the new 2016 guidelines of incontinence care in child welfare clinics in the city concerning. Treatment is carried out by public health nurse individually in consulting hours or by telephone.