The Problem of Nocturnal Enuresis in Adults: Special Reference to Managers and Managerial Aspirants

Abstract

Results showed that student assistants and student leaders did differ from other students in self-actualization and that more differences were found at the end than at the beginning of the year. The residence hall students increased in self-actualization from the beginning to the end of the year on at least twice as many scales of the POI as did the off-campus and the commuting students. At the University of Louisville, 16 1 upper-division undergraduates in accounting, business law, communications, economics, finance, and marketing, and 237 graduate students who held full-time positions of high responsibility in business and industry completed an anonymous questionnaire on enuresis.Nearly 20 per cent of the men and approximatkly 15 per cent of the women had suffered from enuresis at some time. Nine of the graduate students and 6 of the undergraduates currently suffered from enuresis. All of the graduate students with current enuresis emphasized the destructive and embarrassing impact of enuresis on their Personal life and work situation. Nineteen of the 52 graduate students and 13 of the 34 undergraduates who had had enuresis at some time, had sought help, but only 10 secured effective treatment, while 5 graduate students outgrew the condition. From a group of 760 Florida State University students who had taken the Picture Identification Test (PIT) after being referred to the Mental Health Division of the Student Health Center, 34 men who had come to the renter for headache treatment were compared with a control group ot b4 men wno had not had headache problems. Both groups had a low frequency of visits to the Health Center. A group of 18 women with headaches were similarly compared with a control group of 34 nonheadache women. The Need Association scores on the PIT of the headache and nonheadache groups were compared by t-tests followed by stepwise discriminant analysis.The men in the headache group showed strong dependency needs, hidden by selfassertiveness. Conflicts between approach and avoidance seemed to center around feelings of helplessness and inferiority in sexual expression. Headaches in collee men seem to be related to an inability to communicate simply and nonagressively their needs for dependence. The women in the headache group differed most from their control 3901

Differences in characteristics of nocturnal enuresis between children and adolescents: a critical appraisal from a large epidemiological study

“…The traditional view is that in most cases bed‐wetting is due to a developmental immaturity of voiding control, and most enuretic children will ultimately acquire normal control with age. However, previous studies showed that, although spontaneous resolution can continue throughout childhood and adolescence, enuretic problems may persist in 1.5–3% of the adult population [7–10]. Previous studies also show that the frequency and severity of wetting episodes progressively increases with age; those with severe symptoms are much more likely to have persistent problems into adult life [11,12].…”

Nocturnal enuresis in the adolescent: a neglected problem

“…These reports had the bias of only considering males at the age of military recruitment, and furthermore, no definition of NE was given. In an attempt to assess the prevalence of NE in the general population, Cushing and Baller [15] investigated a group of 398 graduate and undergraduate students, finding a prevalence of NE of 3.8%. More recently, Swithinbank et al [16] in a longitudinal study on 1176 children, reported a prevalence of NE of 4.7% at 11-12 years old (3.5% and 6.2%, respectively, in females and males), decreasing to 1.1% at the age of 15-16 years (0.8% and 1.6%, respectively) In their series, NE was more frequent in males in both age groups, and day-wetting more frequent in females.…”

Transurethral incision of congenital obstructive lesions in the posterior urethra in boys and its effect on urinary incontinence and urodynamic study

“…Primary nocturnal enuresis is a common disease with a prevalence of 5–10% in 7‐year‐old children [1,2]. Although it spontaneously resolves in many children, severe nocturnal enuresis that occurs every night may persist until adulthood, resulting in a reported prevalence ranging from 1.5% to 3% in adults [3–5]. In patients with refractory lower urinary tract symptoms such as urinary incontinence or voiding difficulty, voiding cystourethrography (VCUG) is performed to assess the presence or absence of congenital urethral obstruction.…”