Determinants of healthcare‐seeking behaviour among subjects with irritable bowel syndrome

Abstract

SUMMARY BackgroundDoctor visits for irritable bowel syndrome are associated with high medical costs. Predictors of medical consultation for irritable bowel syndrome remain poorly understood.

Frequency and severity of vasomotor symptoms among peri- and postmenopausal women in the United States

“…Upon enrollment into the panel, individuals without Internet access are provided with free Web-TV and Internet service. Thus, rather than being a convenience sample of Internet users, the KN panel is a reasonably representative sample of the US population and has been used in published studies in Journal of the American Medical Association, Menopause, and Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics [9][10][11][12][13][14] .…”

Functional bowel disorders in primary care: Factors associated with health-related quality of life and doctor consultation

“…In the community, symptom severity is an important factor, but only explains a small proportion of health-care-seeking behavior in population-based studies; psychosocial factors, including life event stress, psychological morbidity, abuse, and illness concerns, have also been implicated [18,19]. Recent work suggests that quality of life is associated with health care seeking among population-based subjects with IBS and that different factors may influence health care seeking in men and women [20]. In this study, neither pain nor mental health status was associated with health care seeking.…”

Fecal Calprotectin and serum chromogranin A as potential biomarkers of irritable bowel syndrome symptom severity

“…Lack of reliable diagnostic tests for IBS, combined with the patients' anxiety and stress induced by symptom variability, could lead to increased health care seeking [17,18], consequently exposing patients to numerous invasive, unpleasant and often unnecessary tests. Consequently, IBS becomes not only debilitating for the patient, but also a great social and economic burden [2].…”