Table 3.

Participant descriptions of each level of urgency on the NRS

Bowel Urgency NRS severity range	Anonymized participant ID, age, CD subtype, Supportive quote
Mild	200–007, 36, Type 1: “That I have no, no eminent like I need to go to the bathroom”
Moderate	300–006, 34, Type 3: “That would be I would say the sudden need to use the restroom but not like you feel like you’re going to have an accident”
Severe	200–010, 65, Type 3: “[Severe] would be like where you'd say within two or three feet [from a toilet]…I've had that before…you go and then you think you're done and then you walk back in and you turn around and walk back…It's horrible. It would be huge impact, you know, where you, you can't, you can't leave your house”
Urgency when in CD Remission	200–007, 36, Type 1: “Very minimal to no urgency. Being able to know I have to go and having that couple minutes to get myself there and not have to drop what I'm doing and rush”