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  • Gastroenterology
  • Clinical validation studies
  • Patient-reported outcomes

Background:

  • Bowel diaries are utilized to quantify fecal incontinence (FI) severity.
  • Existing bowel diaries lack sufficient validation for FI assessment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To validate a novel bowel diary for characterizing fecal incontinence (FI).
  • To compare FI characteristics captured by the new bowel diary against a validated questionnaire.

Main Methods:

  • A prospective, four-center study involving 59 participants with FI and 29 controls.
  • Participants completed a 28-day bowel diary and validated questionnaires assessing bowel habits, FI, quality of life (FIQoL), anxiety, depression, and self-efficacy.

Main Results:

  • The bowel diary demonstrated high sensitivity (97%) and specificity (93%) in distinguishing FI participants from controls.
  • Significant correlations were observed between diary and questionnaire data for FI frequency, amount, and awareness.
  • Agreement between diary and questionnaire was found in 71% of participants regarding FI consistency; more severe FI correlated with poorer FIQoL.

Conclusions:

  • The validated bowel diary is effective in differentiating individuals with and without fecal incontinence.
  • A significant, though modest, concordance exists between bowel diary recordings and questionnaire-based assessments of FI characteristics.