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Bowel Urgency in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

NCT06069167 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1000

Last updated 2024-03-26

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Summary

Bowel urgency is commonly defined as the sudden need to rush to the bathroom to empty one's bowel. In the field of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) (including Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC)), bowel urgency is part of the top five research priorities for future IBD nursing research, and it is a symptom that patients consider to be most important when prioritizing their disease control. Urgency is a patient-reported outcome associated with compromised quality of life and future risk of hospitalizations, corticosteroids, and colectomy in patients with UC.

A meta-analysis of 321 studies examining bowel urgency revealed that only one-third of these clinical studies clearly defined the concept of bowel urgency. Definition of bowel urgency was heterogeneous as 14 different definitions were identified. In most of these studies, non-validated questionnaires were used. They are based on subjective responses of the patients, and they could determine evaluation bias. These data emphasize the lack of standardization in bowel urgency assessment.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Collection of data related to bowel urgency

Data will be extracted from the patient's medical record and patients will be interviewed to collect data specific to the research

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Paris IBD Center

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-10-12
Primary Completion
2024-03-22
Completion
2024-03-22

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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