Table 3.
Characteristics of participants who experienced bowel urgency or bowel incontinence
| Characteristic | Bowel urgency |
Bowel incontinence |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| yes, n | no, n | incidence, % | p valuea | yes, n | no, n | incidence, % | p valuea | |
| Gender | ||||||||
| Male | 114 | 96 | 54.3 | 55 | 155 | 26.2 | ||
| Female | 151 | 112 | 57.4 | 72 | 191 | 27.4 | ||
| Age, years | ||||||||
| <20 | 13 | 14 | 48.1 | 0.2284 | 2 | 25 | 7.4 | 0.0014 |
| 20s | 44 | 39 | 53.0 | 19 | 64 | 22.9 | ||
| 30s | 60 | 48 | 55.6 | 26 | 82 | 24.1 | ||
| 40s | 84 | 63 | 57.1 | 40 | 107 | 27.2 | ||
| 50s+ | 64 | 44 | 59.3 | 40 | 68 | 37.0 | ||
| Disease duration, years | ||||||||
| <5 | 140 | 114 | 55.1 | 0.4279 | 58 | 196 | 22.8 | 0.0326 |
| 5–15 | 83 | 68 | 55.0 | 46 | 105 | 30.5 | ||
| >15 | 42 | 26 | 61.8 | 23 | 45 | 33.8 | ||
| Disease classificationb | ||||||||
| Total colitis | 116 | 103 | 53.0 | 0.5454 | 59 | 160 | 26.9 | 0.9446 |
| Left-sided colitis | 59 | 29 | 67.0 | 26 | 62 | 29.5 | ||
| Proctitis | 69 | 57 | 54.8 | 34 | 92 | 27.0 | ||
| Bowel urgency | ||||||||
| Almost every time | − | − | − | − | 20 | 5 | 80.0 | <0.0001 |
| Frequently | − | − | − | 14 | 4 | 77.8 | ||
| Half the time | − | − | − | 16 | 7 | 69.6 | ||
| Occasionally | − | − | − | 27 | 20 | 57.4 | ||
| Rarely | − | − | − | 47 | 105 | 30.9 | ||
| Never | − | − | − | 3 | 205 | 1.4 | ||
| Bowel incontinence | ||||||||
| Almost every time | 5 | 0 | 100.0 | <0.0001 | − | − | − | − |
| Frequently | 10 | 0 | 100.0 | − | − | − | ||
| Half the time | 5 | 0 | 100.0 | − | − | − | ||
| Occasionally | 17 | 0 | 100.0 | − | − | v | ||
| Rarely | 87 | 3 | 96.7 | − | v | − | ||
| Never | 141 | 205 | 40.8 | − | − | − | ||
a
Trend p calculated using the Cochrane-Armitage test.
b
Four hundred thirty-three participants included; 40 excluded from analysis as they did not know the disease classification. Bold text indicates statistical significance.