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Title: | Evaluation of lower urinary tract dysfunction in Turkish primary schoolchildren: An epidemiological study | Authors: | Yüksel, Selçuk Yurdakul, A.Ç. Zencir, M. Çördük, N. |
Keywords: | Childhood Lower urinary tract dysfunction Prevalence adolescent Article birth child controlled study cross-sectional study Dysfunctional Voiding and Incontinence Scoring System educational status evaluation study father female gender home human lower urinary tract symptom major clinical study male medical history micturition mother named inventories, questionnaires and rating scales parent prevalence questionnaire risk factor school child sibling standing urinary tract infection Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Turkey Child Cross-Sectional Studies Female Humans Male Questionnaires Risk Factors |
Publisher: | Elsevier Ltd | Abstract: | Objective The aim was to determine the prevalence of voiding dysfunction and its related risk factors in Turkish schoolchildren. Materials and methods A randomly selected, cross-sectional study was conducted using a self-administered and previously validated questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted of two parts. The first part included personal demographic and familial information, and the second part included the Dysfunctional Voiding and Incontinence Scoring System (DVISS). The questionnaires were given to 4668 children between 6 and 15 years of age, which were completed by the parents and children together. The children with a score of ?9 were accepted as having lower urinary tract dysfunction (LUTD). Results The data were collected from 4016 children (the response rate was 86.0%), including 48.6% boys and 51.4% girls. The mean age was 10.5 ± 2.2 years. The overall frequency of LUTD was 9.3%. While the 6-year-old children had the highest frequency (23.1%) of LUTD, this rate was 7.9% at the age of 10, and the children aged 14 years had the lowest frequency (4.9%), (p < 0.001). Lower urinary tract symptoms were significantly more common in girls (7.6%) than in boys (3.2%) only for the older age group (between 12 and 15 years of age). Compared with normal children, those with LUTD (with a score of ?9) had the following risk factors: less educated parents, a parent that had lower urinary tract symptoms when he or she was a child, more persons per room (?2 persons), more siblings (?4 siblings) at home, past medical history of urinary tract infections, and squatting position (in girls). Conclusions Lower urinary tract problems are one of the most important and ongoing health problems in childhood. Determining the prevalence of lower urinary tract problems in children and their related risk factors is the first step to managing and reducing the number of children suffering from voiding problems. © 2014 Journal of Pediatric Urology Company. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/11499/7441 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpurol.2014.05.008 |
ISSN: | 1477-5131 |
Appears in Collections: | PubMed İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / PubMed Indexed Publications Collection Scopus İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / Scopus Indexed Publications Collection Tıp Fakültesi Koleksiyonu WoS İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / WoS Indexed Publications Collection |
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