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Bowel urgency in inflammatory bowel disease: A concept analysis
Symptoms and flares
Urgency
Anxiety
Systematic Review or Meta Analysis
Adult patients
Clinicians
Researchers
Newly Diagnosed
Why This Matters
Bowel urgency directly limits daily activities and social participation for many people with IBD. Better defining and measuring urgency could improve symptom monitoring, treatment decisions, and trial endpoints that matter to patients.
Who Should Pay Attention
Adult patients with IBD (Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis), clinicians who manage IBD, and researchers developing outcome measures or studying IBD symptoms.
Study Snapshot
Story typeResearch paper
Evidence typeResearch paper
Source depthMetadata only
What To Know
This concept analysis synthesizes clinical, physiological, and patient-reported evidence to define key features of bowel urgency (for example, sudden onset, sense of uncontrollability, fear of incontinence, anticipatory anxiety, and persistence even when inflammation appears controlled).
The authors identify biological drivers such as rectal inflammation and hypersensitivity, as well as psychosocial contributors like vigilance and anxiety.
The paper notes that existing simple scales (eg, numeric rating scales) capture intensity but miss broader impacts on behavior and emotions, and recommends developing and validating an IBD-specific multidimensional urgency measure for clinical care and trials.
The review is grounded in the article abstract and full text provided by the source; it summarizes the authors' reported aims and conclusions without adding new clinical recommendations.
Keep In Mind
This article is a narrative concept analysis synthesizing studies from 2016–2025 rather than a new clinical trial. Recommendations focus on measurement and clinical assessment; it does not test a specific intervention.
Source Details
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Research paper
Evidence type derived from source or registry metadata.
PublicationPubMed Central
JournalInflamm Bowel Dis
AuthorsNapolitano, Daniele, Bozzetti, Mattia, Vanzi, Valentina +5 more
Indexed viaPubMed Central
Source typeResearch repository record
PublishedFeb 25, 2026, 12:00 AM
Content availableMetadata only
This Cure8 brief is based on source text from the linked article. Cure8 is informational only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
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