Status:
COMPLETED
"Functional Bowel Disorder. Investigation in General Practice"
Lead Sponsor:
University of Southern Denmark
Collaborating Sponsors:
Mejeribrugets ForskningsFond
Arla Foods
Conditions:
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-50 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The study aims to investigate how to give the diagnosis of Irritable Bowel Syndrome. The investigators compare two parallel groups of primary care patients, in the age of 18-50 years with gastrointes...
Detailed Description
Background: Two opposing approaches can be distinguished in establishing the diagnosis of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS): IBS as a "diagnosis of exclusion" versus IBS as a syndromic condition on its o...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Fulfill ROME III criteria
- age 18-50 years
- signed informed content
Exclusion
- Danger signals (fever, anaemia, weightloss, blod in stools, predisposition for CRC or IBD)
- abnormal physical examination
- comorbidity
- abuse
- lacking ability to talk and understand danish
- pregnancy
- Performed endoscopy within the last 3 years
- For patients \> 40 years. Changed bowel habits, with duration \> 3 weeks, but \< 1 year
- Age \< 18 years and \> 50 years
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
December 1 2008
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
June 1 2011
Estimated Enrollment :
153 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01153295
Start Date
December 1 2008
End Date
June 1 2011
Last Update
October 25 2011
Active Locations (1)
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Research Unit for General Practice, Department of gastroenterology, Odense University hospital
Odense, Odense, Denmark, 5000