The Prevalence of Irritable Bowel Syndrome among Medical and Non-Medical Suez Canal University Students

Abstract

Background: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is one of the most frequently diagnosed gastrointestinal (GI) disorders in primary care and gastroenterology practices, despite the fact that many suffer symptoms without knowing their diagnosis or seek for medical consult, so this study aims to explore the prevalence of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) among Suez Canal university students. Methods: A cross section with multistage cluster probability sample. Using Rome criteria III IBS module, the questionnaire was administrated to Suez Canal university students; a population consisting of (86) students of the faculty of medicine & non-medical (84) students of the faculty of commerce English section with total (170) students of the third batch from both faculties (whose mean age is 20 ± 0.82) years old with total (109) females and (61) males. Results: The prevalence of IBS according to Rome III criteria in Suez Canal University was 22.9%. 23.8% were diseased in the faculty of commerce while 22.1% in faculty of medicine. Females in this study represent 64.1% of the sample, 30.3% of them were diseased, while males represent 35.9% about 9.8% of them were diseased. IBS constipation predominant type was 28.2%, diarrhea predominant type was 15.4%, mixed type was 46.2%, the un-subtyped cases represent 10.3%. Conclusion: Irritable bowel syndrome is a common disease among Suez Canal university students, more common in non medical students than medical ones, can be considered as a female predominant disease. And this

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“…In addition, the finding of the current study is consistent with the findings of Ahmed et al [10] who conducted a study in an urban area in Suez governorate and found that the prevalence of IBS among the studied population was 34.2%. On the other hand, the prevalence of IBS in the current study is higher than the findings of Darweesh et al [11] who conducted a study among students in Suez Canal University, Egypt and revealed that only 22.9% of the studied students were diseased and the findings of a study conducted in Karachi, Pakistan by Naeem et al [16] where the prevalence of IBS was found to be 28.3%. Results revealed that 39.2% of the diseased students had a mixed IBS type and 32.4% had constipation predominant IBS which is inconsistent with the findings of a study conducted among Japanese university students by Shiotani A et al [17] who revealed that the constipation predominant type was more prevalent (47.8%).…”

“…Females in this study represent 64.1% of the sample, 30.3% of them are diseased, while males represent 35.9% about 9.8% of them are diseased. IBS constipation predominant type is 28.2%, diarrhea predominant type is 15.4%, mixed type is 46.2%, and the un-subtyped cases represent 10.3% [11].…”

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“…Furthermore, participants with enough and exceeding family income, in the current study, had a lower prevalence of IBS than others, which agree with numerous other studies [7,16,18]. This finding may have attributed to the "hygiene hypothesis" and its role in IBS [7].…”

“…The present study revealed that IBS-M and IBS-C were the commonest sub-types. This finding coincides with other studies from Pakistan [10] Saudi Arabia [16] and Egypt [18].…”

“…This result agrees with the pre-determined association between gender and IBS [1,7,8,10,14,18]. This gender difference may be explained by the effect of "Microgenderome" which is related to the possible role of sex-hormones (especially estrogen) on modulation of the gut microbiota, and due to their effects on the peripheral and central regulatory mechanisms of the brain-gut axis.…”