J Neurogastroenterol Motil.  2014 Oct;20(4):506-515. 10.5056/jnm14015.

Impact of Eating Attitude and Impairment of Physical Quality of Life Between Tertiary Clinic and Primary Clinic Functional Dyspepsia Outpatients in Japan

Affiliations
  • 1Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan. seiji.futagami@gmail.com
  • 2Iri Clinic, Saitama, Japan.

Abstract

BACKGROUND/AIMS
There is no available data on factors associated with healthcare-seeking behavior for functional dyspepsia (FD) symptoms at either tertiary or primary clinics in Japan. Therefore, we aimed to compare clinical symptoms and life styles such as sleep disorders and eating attitude in FD patients visiting general practitioners at primary clinics with those consulting gastroenterologists at tertiary clinics to clarify healthcare-seeking patterns in Japanese patients.
METHODS
Fifty-one FD outpatients in a tertiary clinic (college hospital), 50 FD outpatients visiting primary clinics and 50 healthy volunteers were enrolled. Clinical symptoms, quality of life, sleep disorders, eating attitude and anxiety were estimated using the Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale (GSRS), Social Functioning-8 (SF-8) test, Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) test and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) for FD outpatients and healthy volunteers.
RESULTS
FD outpatients exhibited higher mean scores of GSRS than healthy volunteers. The SF-8 physical component summary scores in the tertiary clinic group were significantly lower than those in the primary clinic group. GSRS scores were significantly (P < 0.001, P = 0.002) associated with global PSQI scores in FD outpatients as well as with STAI-trait scores (P = 0.006, P = 0.001) compared to healthy volunteers. The frequency of eating between meals in the primary clinic group was significantly (P < 0.05) higher than that in the tertiary clinic group.
CONCLUSIONS
It may be important for clarification of healthcare-seeking behavior to determine the difference in both impairment of physical quality of life and eating attitudes between tertiary clinic and primary clinic FD outpatients in Japan.

Keyword

Anxiety; Eating attitude; Functional dyspepsia; Healthcare-seeking behavior; Sleep disorders; Quality of life

MeSH Terms

Anxiety
Asian Continental Ancestry Group
Dyspepsia*
Eating*
General Practitioners
Healthy Volunteers
Humans
Japan*
Life Style
Meals
Outpatients*
Quality of Life*
Sleep Wake Disorders
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