Axelrod, Michael, Christopher and Angela (2014), explore the actual effects that are brought along by using a combination of a urine alarm and a simple system of reward to treat nocturnal enuresis (NE). Previously, the urine alarm has been working alone, without any form of reward system. However, in the recent past, there have been cases identified, whereby victims (children) were unable to respond to the urine alarm adequately. In this case study, three young children are used as participants. The withdrawal design method was used to actualize this test. There was delayed/retrogressed multiple baseline design across all the children, evaluating the exact effect of the urine alarm and equally in combination with the implemented reward system. The results of this study were tentatively analyzed through descriptive and visual methods. After the experiment, the urine alarm, in conjunction with the reward system resulted in an immense improvement in all the three children. When the results were compared with the urine alarm alone without rewards, the fact came out that the reward system helped a great deal to reduce the frequency in which night wets occurred. Therefore, Axelrod et al., (2014) conclude that there is a need for parents who have children with a NE syndrome to practice the combination of urine alarm system with rewards to embrace dry nights among their children if urine alarm alone does not bring the desired results.
Reference
Axelrod, Michael I. Tornehl, Christopher, Fontanini-Axelrod, Angela Source: Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing. Apr2014, Vol. 19, Issue, p172-182. 11p.
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