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Temporary Urinary Incontinence in the Acute Psychiatric Patient Without Delirium or Dementia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

G. E. Berrios
G. E. Berrios*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge; Addenbrooke's Hospital (Level 4), Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, United Kingdom
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Abstract

In a prospective study of the 295 admissions in one year to an acute psychiatric ward, 14 subjects without delirium or dementia were found to have developed temporary urinary incontinence. When compared with matched controls (n = 56) the incontinent patients were found to be suffering from psychosis (P < 0.0002) and to have a history of childhood enuresis (P < 0.01). Compared with psychotic controls (n = 22), the incontinent patients were older (P < 0.05), they had been exposed to a greater variety of treatments (P < 0.01), and they had received more thioridazine (P < 0.04).

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 149 , Issue 2 , August 1986 , pp. 224 - 227
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Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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