Bowel urgency is a highly disruptive symptom among patients with inflammatory bowel disease and has a high impact on health-related quality of life.

We aimed to assess changes in severity of bowel urgency among patients with Crohn’s disease (CD) or ulcerative colitis (UC) at 6 months postenrollment.

40–50% of CD and UC patients reported improvement in bowel urgency severity; however, over 50% continue to experience some degree of bowel urgency.

Although a large proportion of IBD patients reported improvement at 6 months postenrollment, one out of three reported worsening, suggesting a lack of effective therapies to treat bowel urgency.