[Alarm defends its position. Comments to meta-analysis of alarm treatment of nocturnal enuresis].
Glazener and Evans have, on behalf of the Cochrane Library, performed a systematic literature review of alarm interventions in nocturnal enuresis. An extensive, and probably exhaustive, search yielded 22 studies which were of sufficient methodological quality and in which the enuresis alarm was included as one treatment alternative. From these studies it could be concluded that 1) the enuresis alarm is clearly more effective than non-treatment, 2) different types of enuresis alarms do not differ significantly as regards efficacy, and 3) alarm treatment is not clearly superior or inferior to pharmacological treatment.
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D002648:Child; D003463:Cues; D004775:Enuresis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic