NCT04082689

Bowel And Bladder Function in Infant Toilet Training

Bowel And Bladder Function in Infant Toilet Training- a Randomized Intervention Study to Investigate the Efficacy of Assisted Infant Toilet Training on Preventing Functional Gastrointestinal and Urinary Tract Disorders up to 4 Years of Age

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 293 (actual)
• Sponsor: Dalarna County Council, Sweden · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The overall purpose is to assess whether assisted infant toilet training during the first year of life can prevent functional gastrointestinal and urinary tract disorders up to 4 year of age. Healthy Swedish children will be randomized to start assisted infant toilet training at 0-2 months of age or at 10-11 months of age. The toilet training process will be described including mother-to-infant attachment and parental stress.

Detailed description

The mastery of toilet training is an important developmental milestone for children and parents. The age at which children start toilet training has increased during the last decades in the Western world. 50 years ago most children were out of nappies by 1,5 years of age. Today, wearing nappies by 3-4 years of age is considered normal. Meanwhile an increase in functional gastrointestinal and urinary tract disorders and toileting problems is reported by health care professionals. A randomized multicenter intervention study is conducted at Child Health Care Centers in Sweden to investigate whether assisted infant toilet training initiated during the first year of life can prevent functional bowel and bladder disorders.

Conditions

• Infantile Colic
• Constipation - Functional
• Bladder Dysfunction
• Toilet Training

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Assisted Infant Toilet Training	The parents learn to sensitively respond to the child's routines and signals of elimination needs.The child's ability to convey the need for bowel and bladder evacuation is enhanced through responsive interaction so that a kind of assisted dryness is developed. The infant is held "squatting" over a potty or basin, while older children sit on the potty.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-04-18
• Primary completion: 2022-06-30
• Completion: 2025-09-01
• First posted: 2019-09-09
• Last updated: 2025-02-21

Locations

6 sites across 1 country: Sweden