Dysfunctional Voiding: Does a validated urine color scale correlate with dysfunctional voiding severity score?

Dysfunctional voiding (DV) affects approximately 40% of patients populating pediatric urology clinics. We administered the Dysfunctional Voiding Symptom Score [DVSS] survey and dehydration severity chart (Urine Color Chart [UCC]) to toilet trained pediatric patients and compared DV patients to patients presenting with non-urologic concerns. We compiled 29 DV patients (ages 3-15, 20 females, 9 males, 29 Caucasian) and 21 non-urologic patients (ages 2-17, 11 males, 10 females, 1 Hispanic, 1 African American, 20 Caucasian) from 2016 to 2018. The DV population had significantly higher scores in 7/ 10 items within the DVSS and overall scores compared to non-urologic patients p < 0.05, p = 0.0004 respectively. This suggests the DVSS results yield significantly different results among DV and non-DV patients.