Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with enuresis

Enuresis is a symptom that is frequently encountered in child psychiatric evaluations. Careful assessment is required to identify specific urologic, developmental, psychosocial, and sleep-related etiologies. For most children with enuresis, however, a specific etiology cannot be determined. Treatment then involves supportive approaches, conditioning with a urine alarm, or medications--imipramine or desmopressin acetate. The psychosocial consequences of the symptom must be recognized and addressed with sensitivity during the evaluation and treatment of enuresis.

Published by Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2004. The guideline itself is at the source linked here.

doi.org/10.1097/01.chi.0000142196.41215.cc