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Centre for Kidney Research
Children's Hospital at Westmead
Locked Bag 4001 Westmead
NSW 2145 Australia
Tel: +61 2 9845 1469
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Email: ckr@chw.edu.au

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Sept 2007
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Continence Research

This group has undertaken:

A study of daytime incontinence in children commencing primary school in NSW. Details of this study are published below:

  • Sureshkumar P, Craig JC, Roy LP, Knight JF. Daytime urinary incontinence in primary school children: A population-based survey. Journal of Pediatrics 2000 Dec;137(6):814-8
    [PubMed abstract]
  • Sureshkumar P, Craig JC, Roy LP, Knight JF A reproducible pediatric daytime questionnaire. Journal of Urology 2001; 165(2):569-73
    [PubMed abstract]

A systematic review of treatments for childhood incontinence.

  • Sureshkumar P, Bower W, Craig JC, Knight JF Treatment of daytime urinary incontinence in children: a systematic review of randomised & controlled trials.Journal of Urology 2003 170(1):196-200
    [PubMed Abstract]

OUTCOME [Outcome of children with UTI and Continence Maturation]

A population based cohort study is presently under way. This study concerns two very common and important health problems in childhood, daytime wetting and urinary tract infections (UTI) in children.

The aims of this study are to determine the natural history of daytime wetting over a 1 year follow-up period and he frequency of and risk factors for persistent daytime wetting and urinary tract infections.

This study is funded by an NMHRC Postgraduate Research Scholarship,the Ramaciotti Foundation for Children and the Financial Markets for Children Foundation

Bedwetting cohort study

The assessment of risk factors for failure of treatment with enuresis alarms/desmopressin in children with nocturnal enuresis. A before and after study comparing tailored management (advice regarding fluid and caffeine consumption, management of constipation and/or bladder dysfunction and enuresis alarm/desmopressin) with enuresis alarm alone in children with nocturnal enuresis. This study focuses on ways to improve eneuresis(bedwetting) in children.

For more information on bedwetting see the Bedwetting Fact Sheet

Alarm Study

A randomised controlled trial (RCT) comparing bed and body worn alarms with and without overlearning in the treatment of bedwetting.

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