IBS-C questionnaire study

Exclusion Criteria

• • Individuals with a cognitive condition and unable to finish the questionnaire.
• • Individuals have an acute or chronic non-GI condition that can be associated with constipation; e.g., central nervous system cause (Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injury, and multiple sclerosis), pseudo-obstruction, colonic inertia, megacolon, megarectum, bowel obstruction, descending perineum syndrome, solitary rectal ulcer syndrome, systemic sclerosis.
• • Individuals who had been diagnosed with the following organic health problems likely to affect GI symptoms:
• - Inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis)
• - cancer anywhere in the GI tract or current infection of the GI tract.
• - Pelvic floor dysfunction. (i.e., disease that is not adequately treated or stable with therapy.)
• - Any history of colon surgeries.
• • Individuals who participate in any interventional study currently.
• • Not suitable for the study judged by investigators.