patients’ lives and requires proper control to improve health outcomes. This study aimed to assess perceived IBD
control and identify factors associated with it.
Methods: An interview-based questionnaire was used to collect data related to sociodemographic, lifestyle, IBDrelated
information, and anthropometrics among 116 IBD patients. The inflammatory bowel disease control
questionnaire was used to evaluate IBD control, the general health questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12) was used to assess
general psychological distress, and the malnutrition universal screening tool (MUST) was used for malnutrition
screening.
Results: The mean age of the study participants was 36.4 ± 13.8 years, the mean time since being diagnosed with
IBD was 6.2 ± 6.6 years, and the mean IBD-control score was 10.8 ± 4.8. Better IBD control (p < 0.05) was
significantly associated with living with a spouse, having a higher educational level, being a non-current smoker,
not having sleeping problems, not having changes in sleep duration after being diagnosed, being more physically
active or having the same level of physical activity compared to before diagnosis, and being well-nourished. In
addition, longer disease duration, higher midarm, calf, and hip circumferences, increased muscle mass, handgrip
strength, peak flow rate, and GHQ score were all significantly correlated with IBD control score. In multivariate
analysis only the GHQ-12 score and the principal component representing muscle mass and body size were found
to be statistically significant.
Conclusions: Psychological well-being and favorable body composition were independently associated with better
perceived disease control among individuals with IBD. These findings necessitate the importance of psychological
screening and nutritional or functional assessments into IBD management to enhance self-management
and improve patients’ overall disease experience.

العنوان

Pan-Arab Association of Gastroenterology.

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Elsevier B.V.

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