DOP70 Prevalence and severity of bowel urgency in Crohn’s Disease: Results from the Communicating Needs and Features of IBD Experience (CONFIDE) Survey
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Abstract
Abstract Background Bowel urgency (BU) affects patients with Crohn’s disease (CD); however, its prevalence and severity are unclear. Here, data from Communicating Needs and Features of IBD Experiences (CONFIDE) study were used to understand the burden and impact of BU among patients with moderate-to-severe CD. Methods CONFIDE is an online, quantitative, cross-sectional survey exploring the experiences and impact of symptoms on patients with CD or ulcerative colitis in Europe (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and UK), United States (US) and Japan. Criteria based on previous treatment, steroid use, and/or hospitalization defined moderate-to-severe CD. Patients were asked about bowel movement deferral time with response options ranging from able to wait ≥15 minutes (mins) to sometimes unable to make it to the bathroom in time. Patients currently experiencing BU (in last month) rated BU severity in the last 3 days using the Urgency Numeric Rating Scale (NRS, 0-10), a content-validated patient-reported instrument. CD data from Europe and US are presented here using descriptive statistics. Results Surveys were completed by 547 European (male [M]=55.4%, mean age 38 years) and 215 US (M=54.9%, mean age 40.9 years) patients with CD. Current BU (over the past month) was reported by 38% of patients in Europe and 42.3% in US. More than one-third of all patients in both Europe and US reported that over the last 3 days, they needed to get to the bathroom within 5 mins, and 1.8% European and 2.8% US patients were sometimes unable to make it to the bathroom in time. Among patients who reported currently experiencing BU, 46% reported the need to get to the bathroom within 5 mins and 3% reported sometimes being unable to make it to the bathroom in time in both Europe and US. Shorter deferral times were reported by those with higher mean Urgency NRS scores (Table). Mean (SD) Urgency NRS scores in patients with a deferral time <5 mins vs those with a deferral time >5 mins were 7.0 (1.7) vs 6.5 (2.1) among European and 7.3 (1.5) vs 6.7 (1.9) among the US patients. Most European and US patients reported experiencing BU, BU-related accidents, and/or wearing diaper/pad/other protection due to fear/anticipation of BU-related accidents at least once a month in past 3 months (Figure). Conclusion Patients with moderate-to-severe CD reported similar experiences of BU in the Europe and US, with most patients reporting currently experiencing BU and wearing diaper/pad/protection due to fear of BU-related accidents at least once a month. Patients currently experiencing BU had short deferral times, often having to reach the bathroom in ≤5 mins. Given the substantial burden and impact, BU should be considered when assessing patients with CD.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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