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Urine-Triggered Alarm Signals and Prompts to Promote Daytime Urinary Continence in a Boy with Severe Intellectual Disability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 1999

Giulio E. Lancioni  and
Sonia Markus
Giulio E. Lancioni*
Affiliation:
University of Leiden, The Netherlands
Sonia Markus
Affiliation:
University of Leiden, The Netherlands
*
G. E. Lancioni, Department of Psychology, University of Leiden, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK Leiden, The Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

A strategy involving urine-triggered alarm signals and prompts combined with positive reinforcement for appropriate urination was employed for promoting daytime urinary continence in a boy with severe intellectual disability. The strategy, which was applied only in the day centre the boy attended, seemed effective for promoting self-initiated toileting actions and for eliminating almost totally large urinary accidents. Some small urinary accidents (consisting of wetting small areas of the underpants) remained. Implications of the findings are discussed.

Keywords

Urine-triggered alarm signalspromptsdaytime urinary continencesevere intellectual disabilityself-initiated toileting actionsurinary accidents
Type
Clinical Section
Information
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , July 1999 , pp. 261 - 265
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1999

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