National Prevalence of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders in Jordanian Children

© 2020 Altamimi et al..

INTRODUCTION: Functional gastrointestinal disorders are common in children. After the introduction of Rome criteria for diagnosis, assessment of prevalence of such disorders became an attainable goal. Since data from our part of the world are scarce, this study aimed at estimating the prevalence of functional gastrointestinal disorders in Jordanian children.

PATIENTS AND METHODS: In a school-based cross-sectional study, recruited children between the age of 4 and 18 were asked to fill the Arabic version of the Questionnaire on Pediatric Gastrointestinal Symptoms-Rome III Version (QPGS-RIII). Patients were identified based on meeting the ROME III criteria.

RESULTS: Of 2000 children that were recruited, 1587 (79.4%) returned completed questionnaires. Males accounted for 841 (53%) of participants. Mean age was 10.2 years (range, 4 to 18 years). A total of 815 (51.4%) of participants were younger group (4 to 10 years of age), mean ± SD age of the two age groups was 8.1 ± 1.4 and 14.0 ± 1.8 years, respectively. Overall, 514 (32.4%) children met the criteria for having at least one FGID. The most common FGIDs in Jordanian children were functional constipation, followed by Aerophagia, abdominal migraine, and irritable bowel syndrome (prevalence estimates of 16.0%, 7.0%, 5.1%, and 3.6%, respectively). FGIDs were more common in younger girls and older boys but were not statistically significant. Concomitant presence of more than one FGID was observed in almost 15% and 22% of younger and older age groups, respectively.

CONCLUSION: Functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) are common in Jordanian school children. Functional constipation is the most common disorder. Further studies investigating the predisposing factors in our population are needed.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Clinical and experimental gastroenterology - 13(2020) vom: 28., Seite 267-272

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Altamimi, Eyad [VerfasserIn]
Scarpato, Elena [VerfasserIn]
Saleh, Ibraheem [VerfasserIn]
Tantawi, Khalid [VerfasserIn]
Alassaf, Mohammad [VerfasserIn]
Ijam, Mustafa [VerfasserIn]
Khdour, Mahmoud [VerfasserIn]
Batieneh, Mohammad [VerfasserIn]
Alsarayrah, Yazan [VerfasserIn]
Alaqtam, Basil [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Aerophagia
Arab
Children
Constipation
Functional
Gastrointestinal
Journal Article
Mediterranean

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Date Revised 16.04.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.2147/CEG.S256276

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM313948747