title: Quantifying subjective assessment of sleep quality, quality of life and depressed mood in children with enuresis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this study was to compare a group of children who has monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis (MNE) with a healthy control group by assessing their depression scales, quality of life and sleep quality.
  
  
  METHODS
  Hundred and one children with MNE and 38 healthy controls are included in the study, aged between 8 and 16 years old. All participants were performed the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL 4.0), Depression Scale for Children (CES-DC) and The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) tests. The two groups were compared for their demographic factors and for the results of the tests above.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were no significant differences between the two groups according to age, gender and other demographic factors. Quality of life, depression and sleep quality scores implied worse health in the patient group. The PedsQL scores were assessed as 1,659.90 ± 296.01 in the patient group and 1,818.42 ± 227.92 in the control group (p = 0.001). The CES-DC scores were 11.74 ± 6.11 in the patient group and 7.00 ± 3.97 in the control group (p < 0.001). And the PSQI scores were 2.58 ± 2.48 in the patient group, 1.15 ± 1.10 in the control group (p < 0.001). Also in the patient group, there was a positive correlation between participants' ages and the PedsQL (p = 0.010; r = 0.256), the CES-DC (p = 0.000; r = 0.382), the PSQI (p = 0.000; r = 0.403) scores. The success parameters at school were significantly worse in the patient group (p = 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  All our findings show us that the children with nocturnal enuresis were affected negatively because of their disease; especially when they grow up the scores get worse health, so we suggest that treatment must be started at suitable age according to guidelines.
authors.affiliation: Uşak State Hospital, Urology Clinic, Uşak, Turkey, uceroktay@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Oktay
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Üçer
authors.forename: Bilal
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gümüş
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D015897:Comorbidity; D003657:Decision Making; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D053206:Nocturnal Enuresis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D063868:Patient Outcome Assessment; D015995:Prevalence; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires