NCT03478813

Voiding School as a Treatment of Children's Day-time Incontinence or Enuresis

Voiding School as a Treatment of Children's Functional Incontinence - Evaluation and Implementation of the Intervention

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Helsinki University Central Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years – 6 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The Voiding School is a simple educational intervention to treat children with daytime incontinence or enuresis.The purpose of this study is to implement the intervention in primary care, child welfare clinics. Half of the participated children will receive treatment according the Voiding School protocoll and half of them will receive treatment as usual. Patient outcomes are evaluated by measuring changes in wetting episodes. Aim is also to evaluate the implementation process.

Detailed description

Children under school age attend to regular visits in Child welfare clinics for health examination and guidance. If the child have daytime incontinence or enuresis during the yearly visit at the age of 5 or 6, he or she is eligible for participating the study aiming to implement and evaluate the Voiding school intervention. In the Voiding school the children are educated in groups of 4-6 children with child-oriented methods highlighting learning by doing in order to achieve better bladder control. Usual care includes individual advice concerning voiding habits and general life-style advice.

Conditions

• Daytime Wetting
• Enuresis
• Functional Incontinence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Voiding school	Children are educated on the kidneys, bladder and bowel function, the importance of regular voiding and drinking habits, and avoidance of constipation. Balloons, books, videos, animations, the pictures of a satisfied and irritated bladder and a poo-cars formula track are used to exemplify the function of urinary and defecation systems. During toilet visits children are given advise about an adequate and relaxed toilet posture with the help of little bench under the feet if needed. Each child also make their own timetable for peeing, pooing, and water drinking times, which they then should learn to follow in day-care, pre-school and at home. At the end of each session child, parent and public health nurse/urotherapist discuss any individual advice and the homework for the next time.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-01-01
• Primary completion: 2019-05-31
• Completion: 2019-05-31
• First posted: 2018-03-27
• Last updated: 2021-05-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Finland