Faecal incontinence and health related quality of life in inflammatory bowel disease patients: Findings from a tertiary care center in South Asia

Table 1 Demographic characteristics of the study population n (%)

	Total IBD	UC	CD
Age at the diagnosis (yr)
≤ 10	2 (1.1)	1 (0.7)	1 (3.2)
11-19	17 (9.2)	13 (8.5)	4 (12.9)
20-29	42 (22.8)	25 (16.3)	17 (54.8)
30-39	53 (28.8)	49 (32.0)	4 (12.9)
40-49	39 (21.2)	36 (23.5)	3 (9.7)
50-59	21 (11.4)	19 (12.4)	2 (6.5)
60-69	8 (4.3)	8 (5.2)	-
70-79	2 (1.1)	2 (1.3)	-
Gender
Male	83 (45.1)	62 (40.5)	21 (67.7)
Female	101 (54.9)	91 (59.5)	10 (32.3)
Education
Primary (Grade 1-5)	40 (21.7)	35 (22.9)	5 (16.1)
Secondary (Grade 6-13)	118 (64.1)	101 (66.0)	17 (54.8)
Higher (University or above)	26 (14.1)	17 (11.0)	9 (29.0)
Employment
None	72 (39.1)	64 (41.8)	8 (25.8)
Student	11 (6.0)	11 (7.2)	-
Labourer	63 (34.2)	50 (32.7)	13 (41.9)
Professional	38 (20.7)	28 (18.3)	10 (32.3)

IBD: Inflammatory bowel disease; UC: Ulcerative colitis; CD: Crohn’s disease.

Table 2 Descriptive statistics for the four domains and overall score of the IBDQ-32 and categories

	Minimum (Reference)	Maximum (Reference)	Mean
IBDQbowel	10	56	22.33
IBDQSystemic	6	34	12.5
IBDQEmotinal	18	84	34.87
IBDQSocial	5	35	12.3
IBDQTotal	51 (32)	215 (224)	94.28

Table 3 Details of surgical procedures for inflammatory bowel disease

Surgical procedure	Indication	n (%)
UC
Restorative proctocolectomy and ileoanal pouch	Steriod resistance-7 Atypia on histology-4 Sigmoid colon cancer-1	12 (7.8)
Sigmoid colectomy	Stricture of sigmoid colon	1 (0.7)
CD
Drainage and fistulectomy	Perianal abscess and fistula	1 (3.2)
Fistulectomy and repair	Recurrent enterocutaneous fistula	1 (3.2)
Incision and drainage	R/Ischiorectal fossa abscess	1 (3.2)
Repair of the fistula	Enrerocutaneous fistula	2 (6.4)
R/hemicolectomy and ileo transverse anastomosis	Strictures of the colon	4 (12.9)
Total colectomy and ileostomy	Strictures of colon	2 (6.4)
Repair of the fistula	Recto vaginal fistula	1 (3.2)
Strictureplasty, R/hemicolectomy and ileo transverse	Two long segment narrowings –distal ileum	1 (3.2)
Anastomosis	multiple narrowings > 10 in jejunum and proximal ileum and strictures of ascending colon	-

UC: Ulcerative colitis; CD: Crohn’s disease.

Table 4 Correlation between quality of life components and incontinence scores

Association	Pearson correlation coefficient (Rho value)
IBDQbowel vs Vaizey score	0.74
IBDQSystemic vs Vaizey score	0.13
IBDQEmotinal vs Vaizey score	0.09
IBDQSocial vs Vaizey score	0.3
IBDQTotal vs Vaizey score	0.61