کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
3266696 1207864 2006 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Self-perceived normality in defecation habits
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی غدد درون ریز، دیابت و متابولیسم
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Self-perceived normality in defecation habits
چکیده انگلیسی

BackgroundAvailable information on normal bowel habits was mainly gathered by means of telephone interviews or mailed questionnaires.AimsWe undertook a prospective study to evaluate the defecatory habits in subjects perceiving themselves as normal concerning this function.Subjects and MethodsA questionnaire (4-week diary with “yes–no” daily answers to six questions concerning bowel habits) was distributed to 204 subjects perceiving their defecation behaviour as normal.ResultsThe completed questionnaire was returned by 140 subjects. No significant differences were found between sexes or age groups for any variable, even though straining at stool and feeling of incomplete and/or difficult evacuation showed a trend to increase with age. No subject had less than three bowel movements per week or more than three per day. The percentage of symptoms linked to an abnormal defecatory behaviour was well below 10%. Fifty-five percent of subjects reported at least one parameter of abnormal functioning; the most frequent was straining at stool and the rarer was the manual manoeuvres to help defecation.ConclusionsIn normal subjects the prevalence of symptoms considered in Rome II criteria as part of an abnormal defecatory behaviour (in more than 25% of defecations) is well below 10%, manual manoeuvres are almost never used to help defecation, and the frequency of defecations is at least three per week.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Digestive and Liver Disease - Volume 38, Issue 2, February 2006, Pages 103–108
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