Bell and pad alarm effectively treats enuresis in kids with neurodevelopmental disorders: Study

Australia: A recent study in the Journal of Pediatric Urology evaluating the efficacy of a bell and pad enuresis alarm therapy in children with neurodevelopmental disorders found the treatment to be effective. 

In children with neurodevelopmental disorders, there is a high prevalence of enuresis (bedwetting). Despite this, research regarding treatment for this group has been neglected. The effectiveness of treatment using bell and pad alarm therapy is not well reported especially in those with neurodevelopmental disorders. Sharynn Schuster, RMIT University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia, and colleagues, therefore, sought to compare the treatment efficacy of practitioner-assisted bell-and-pad enuresis alarm therapy for children with neurodevelopmental disorders and typically developing children.

For this purpose, the researchers utilized the data of Apos et al. (2018), a retrospective medical record audit collected from multiple clinical settings across Australia, including a total of 2986 patient records (3659 treatment records). The participants were children aged 5-16 years. Children with a neurodevelopmental disorder (n = 158) had a clinical diagnosis present in the medical history of attention deficit disorder, autism spectrum disorder, or intellectual disability.