Awareness and attitude of fecal microbiota transplantation through transendoscopic enteral tubing among inflammatory bowel disease patients

Table 1 Characteristics of the participants

Items	Result
	Group 1	Group 2
Total number	511	109
Age, median (range), yr	45.0 (35.5-51.0)	35.0 (29.0-42.0)
Age at diagnosis, median (range), yr	28.5 (21.0-38.0)	26.0 (29.0-33.0)
Duration of disease, median (range), yr	3.0 (1.5-7.5)	8.0 (5.0-12.0)
Sex, male, n (%)	326 (63.8)	68 (62.4)
Disease category, n (%)
UC	260 (50.9)	40 (36.7)
CD	211 (41.3)	62 (56.9)
IBD unclassified	40 (7.8)	7 (6.4)
Level of education, n (%)
At or below primary school	51 (10.0)	6 (5.5)
Middle school or equivalent	188 (36.8)	35 (32.1)
At or above undergraduate	272 (52.2)	68 (62.4)
Medicine education background, n (%)
With	48 (9.4)	6 (5.5)
Without	463 (90.6)	103 (94.5)
Family history of IBD, n (%)
Yes	38 (7.4)	9 (8.3)
No	473 (92.6)	100 (91.7)
Self-reported disease severity, n (%)
Mild	194 (38.0)	36 (33.0)
Moderate	248 (48.5)	49 (45.0)
Severe	69 (13.5)	24 (22.0)

CD: Crohn’s disease; FMT: Fecal microbiota transplantation; IBD: Inflammatory bowel disease; UC: Ulcerative colitis.