- Title
- The alignment of dietary intake and symptom-reporting capture periods in studies assessing associations between food and functional gastrointestinal disorder symptoms: A systematic review
- Creator
- Duncanson, Kerith; Burrows, Tracy; Keely, Simon; Potter, Michael; Das, Gayatri; Walker, Marjorie; Talley, Nicholas J.
- Relation
- Nutrients Vol. 11, Issue 11, no. 2590
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu11112590
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Food ingestion is heavily implicated in inducing symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and functional dyspepsia (FD), which affect over one-third of adults in developed countries. The primary aim of this paper was to assess the alignment of dietary assessment and symptom-reporting capture periods in diet-related studies on IBS or FD in adults. Secondary aims were to compare the degree of alignment, validity of symptom-reporting tools and reported significant associations between food ingestion and symptoms. A five-database systematic literature search resulted in 40 included studies, from which data were extracted and collated. The food/diet and symptom capture periods matched exactly in 60% (n = 24/40) of studies, overlapped in 30% (n = 12/40) of studies and were not aligned in 10% (n = 4/40) of studies. Only 30% (n = 12/40) of studies that reported a significant association between food and global gastrointestinal symptoms used a validated symptom-reporting tool. Of the thirty (75%) studies that reported at least one significant association between individual gastrointestinal symptoms and dietary intake, only four (13%) used a validated symptom tool. Guidelines to ensure that validated symptom-reporting tools are matched with fit-for-purpose dietary assessment methods are needed to minimise discrepancies in the alignment of food and symptom tools, in order to progress functional gastrointestinal disorder research.
- Subject
- dietary assessment; irritable bowel syndrome; functional dyspepsia; functional gastrointestinal disorder; systematic review
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1409887
- Identifier
- uon:36082
- Identifier
- ISSN:2072-6643
- Rights
- © This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CCBY) License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Language
- eng
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