Macedonian Enuretic Study Group (MESD) - Mission and Challenges

The establishment of the Macedonian Enuresis Study Group (MESD) resulted from the need to increase the knowledge and awareness among the health professionals about this topic since epidemiologic data on the prevalence are scarce; there is lack of knowledge about the attitude of the physicians and families about the enuresis/incontinence, treatment modalities and outcomes. This is a non-formal internet based group with voluntary participation mainly of pediatricians, general practitioners urologists and other health professionals who manage children with enuresis/incontinence.

The basic mission of the group is to connect the pediatricians and other health professionals who work on the problem of the enuresis/incontinence in children and adolescents; to disseminate/spread the knowledge on this topic in order to improve management of these patients and to support research and scientific activities on the local and international level. Spread of the knowledge should be done trough (i) Papers, articles, book chapters (ii) Regular Pubmed abstracts (iii) Guidelines (iv) Other materials (v) Discussion of difficult to solve cases. The group will initiate collaborative studies and for each study/project core group of 4-5 members will be elected. They will design the study protocol and create appropriate questionnaire. Ethical approval is not mandatory for observational/non-interventional study. We have such approval at the University Children’s Hospital. We expect realization of the first study until the end of 2017 year.