Butler R, Heron J
Clinical Psychology Department, Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services, Leeds Primary Care Trust, Leeds, UK.
Child Care Health Dev. 2008 Jan;34(1):65-70. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2007.00781.x.
Although some empirical investigations have explored the impact of nocturnal enuresis for sufferers, little is known about how children in general understand nocturnal enuresis. This study employed a large cohort of children at 9 years, asking directly about the perceived difficulty of bed-wetting in relation to an extensive range of life events.
The sample comprised 8209 children, 4012 (48.9%) male and 4197 (51.1%) female who, as part of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children survey, completed a booklet called 'My World' which included a section of 21 items concerned with childhood difficulties.
Bed-wetting was highly endorsed as a difficulty for children, and factor analysis revealed it to be construed as a social problem. Girls were more likely to consider events of a social and emotional nature to be difficult, whereas boys rated antisocial events as more problematic. Boys and those who suffer from nocturnal enuresis were significantly more likely to view bed-wetting as more difficult for children.
Bed-wetting, which is construed as a social issue, tends to be rated as a major difficulty for children, increasingly so for boys and those who suffer from nocturnal enuresis.
尽管一些实证研究探讨了夜间遗尿对患者的影响，但对于儿童总体上如何理解夜间遗尿却知之甚少。本研究调查了一大群9岁儿童，直接询问他们在一系列广泛生活事件中对尿床感知到的困难程度。
样本包括8209名儿童，其中4012名（48.9%）为男性，4197名（51.1%）为女性。作为埃文亲子纵向研究调查的一部分，他们完成了一本名为《我的世界》的小册子，其中有一部分包含21个与童年困难相关的项目。
尿床被高度认可为儿童面临的一个困难，因子分析表明它被视为一个社会问题。女孩更倾向于认为社交和情感性质的事件是困难的，而男孩则认为反社会事件更成问题。男孩以及患有夜间遗尿症的儿童更有可能认为尿床对孩子来说更困难。
被视为社会问题的尿床，往往被认为是儿童面临的一个主要困难，对男孩和患有夜间遗尿症的儿童来说更是如此。
