Prevalence of irritable bowel syndrome among Qassim school teachers, and its impact on their performance and life duties | Zendy

Muhannad I. Alkhalifah | Zendy; Abdulmalik M. Al-Aql | Zendy; Majed Almutairi | Zendy; Saleh A. Alnuqaydan | Zendy; Abdullah S. Al-Wehaibi | Zendy; Abdullah M. AlJurayyed | Zendy; Abdullah Sulaiman Aldhuwyan | Zendy; Khalid G Alharbi | Zendy; Ibrahim N. Alomar | Zendy; Suliman S. Alayyaf | Zendy; Moeen Zafar | Zendy

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Prevalence of irritable bowel syndrome among Qassim school teachers, and its impact on their performance and life duties

Author(s) -

Muhannad I. Alkhalifah,

Abdulmalik M. Al-Aql,

Majed Almutairi,

Saleh A. Alnuqaydan,

Abdullah S. Al-Wehaibi,

Abdullah M. AlJurayyed,

Abdullah Sulaiman Aldhuwyan,

Khalid G Alharbi,

Ibrahim N. Alomar,

Suliman S. Alayyaf,

Moeen Zafar

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

saudi medical journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437

H-Index - 51

eISSN - 1658-3175

pISSN - 0379-5284

DOI - 10.15537/smj.2016.7.15043

Subject(s) - medicine , absenteeism , irritable bowel syndrome , test (biology) , cross sectional study , stratified sampling , family medicine , demography , pediatrics , psychiatry , psychology , social psychology , paleontology , pathology , sociology , biology

Prevalence of IBS in Qassim school teachers is becoming an important issue with 40.7% of teachers reporting symptoms suggestive of IBS in a random sample. Majority of teachers are having frequent performance problems - as teachers - and in usual life duties associated with their IBS Symptoms. Significantly, IBS criteria +ve teachers are more likely to have discipline problems compared with healthy teachers. We recommend a health care program to tackle the problem among the teachers, to improve their performance and reduce working hours loss. Also, follow up studies need to be conducted to assess the health care of IBS patients in local public health care centers.

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