Outcomes of a pilot evaluation of a group urotherapy programme for children with complex elimination disorders: An Australian experience
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Article Title | Outcomes of a pilot evaluation of a group urotherapy programme for children with complex elimination disorders: An Australian experience |
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ERA Journal ID | 21965 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Peck, Blake, Terry, Daniel, Martin, Benita, Mathews, Belinda and Green, Andrea |
Journal Title | Journal of Child Health Care |
Journal Citation | 26 (3), pp. 438-447 |
Number of Pages | 10 |
Year | 2022 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications Ltd |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 1367-4935 |
1741-2889 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/13674935211022537 |
Web Address (URL) | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13674935211022537 |
Abstract | Evidence-based interventions have continued to show positive effects on both reducing symptoms and helping children with elimination disorders achieve continence and manage troubling psychological distress. Despite this, there is a group of children who do not respond to standard treatments and are classified as having a complex elimination disorder. As a means of addressing the broader clinical challenge and implications of complex elimination disorders, a team of clinicians in Germany developed the Urinary and Faecal Incontinence Training Program for Children and Adolescents. A pilot investigation was undertaken to apply the Urinary and Faecal Incontinence Training Program for Children and Adolescents programme to children aged 6–12 years in an Australian context who met the complex elimination disorder diagnostic criteria, to determine if any subsequent change in the measures of life quality and general well-being was achieved. Findings suggest a reduction in the frequency of the child’s symptoms and improvements in family quality of life measures. Qualitatively, children and parents perceived that their child’s ability to now respond to stimuli and in so doing avert severe accidents was a major outcome of the programme and was able to increase a child’s sense of acceptance of incontinence, improve levels of self-efficacy and increase self-awareness. |
Keywords | childhood illness, elimination disorders, quality of life, parents, self efficacy |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 420106. Physiotherapy |
420503. Community and primary care | |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | Federation University |
Grampians Regional Continence Service, Australia |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/w4523/outcomes-of-a-pilot-evaluation-of-a-group-urotherapy-programme-for-children-with-complex-elimination-disorders-an-australian-experience
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