A 5-Year-Old Child Was Diagnosed with Encopresis

question 14

Multiple Choice

A 5-year-old child was diagnosed with encopresis.Which assessment finding would the nurse expect associated with this diagnosis? The child:

• A) frequently smears feces on clothing and toys.
• B) experiences frequent nocturnal episodes of bedwetting.
• C) has accidents of defecation at kindergarten three times a week.
• D) has occasional episodes of voiding accidents at the day care center.

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Definitions:

Primacy Effect

The tendency to remember information that is presented first or early in a list more effectively than information presented later.

Recency Effect

The psychological phenomenon where the most recently presented information is remembered better than earlier information.

Sequence Order Effect

The phenomenon where the order in which items are presented affects the recall or understanding of those items.

Reconstruction

An account of an event that has been pieced together from a few highlights.