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Behaviour Treatment of Daytime Incontinence in Elderly Male and Female Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Diana Chanfreau-Rona ,
Belinda Wylie  and
Stuart Bellwood
Diana Chanfreau-Rona
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Psychology, Banstead Hospital, Sutton, Surrey
Belinda Wylie
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Psychology, Banstead Hospital, Sutton, Surrey
Stuart Bellwood
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Psychology, Banstead Hospital, Sutton, Surrey
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This paper describes an attempt at retraining continence in elderly psychogeriatric patients using behavioural methods. Thirty patients across four wards were selected and divided equally into experimental and control groups. The experimental group underwent a training programme lasting a total of seven weeks whilst the control group continued with the usual nursing procedure.

The results showed no significant differences in frequency of incontinence between the different groups at the end of the programme. However, there were indications that a continence training programme is more likely to be beneficial to those patients who have a low level of incontinence rather than those for whom incontinence is a more severe problem. For these patients, those in the experimental group showed increased levels of incontinence after the training period compared to the control group.

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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , January 1986 , pp. 13 - 20
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1986

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