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ArticleJournal of neurogastroenterology and motility2016

Translation and Validation of Enhanced Asian Rome III Questionnaires in Bengali Language for Diagnosis of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders.

M Masudur Rahman, Uday C Ghoshal, A H M Rowshon, Faruque Ahmed, Md Golam Kibria, Mahmud Hasan, Kok-Ann Gwee, William E Whitehead

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Article in Journal of neurogastroenterology and motility, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.

M Masudur RahmanDhaka Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Uday C GhoshalDepartment of Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India.
A H M RowshonShaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Faruque AhmedDhaka Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Md Golam KibriaDhaka Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Mahmud HasanBangladesh Medical Research Council, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Kok-Ann GweeDepartment of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
William E WhiteheadCenter for Functional GI and Motility Disorders, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Dhaka Medical College and Hospital · BDBangladesh Medical Research Council · BDNational University of Singapore · SGSanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences · INShaheed Suhrawardy Medical College · BDUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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aimsFunctional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs), diagnosed by symptom-based criteria due to lack of biomarkers, need translatedvalidated questionnaires in different languages. As Bengali, the mother tongue of Bangladesh and eastern India, is the seventh most spoken language in the world, we translated and validated the Enhanced Asian Rome III questionnaire (EAR3Q) in this language.

methodsThe EAR3Q was translated in Bengali as per guideline from the Rome Foundation. The translated questionnaire was validated prospectively on Bengali-speaking healthy subjects (HS, n = 30), and patients with functional dyspepsia (FD, n = 35), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS, n = 40) and functional constipation (FC, n = 12) diagnosed by clinicians using the Rome III criteria. The subjects were asked to fill-in the questionnaire again after 2 weeks, to check for its reproducibility.

resultsDuring translation, the original and the backward translated English versions of the questionnaire demonstrated high concordance. Sensitivity of the Bengali questionnaire to diagnose patients with FD, IBS, FC, and HS was 100%, 100%, 75%, and 100%, respectively, considering diagnosis by the clinicians as the gold standard. On test-retest reliability analysis, Kappa values for FD, IBS, FC, and HS were 1.0, 1.0, 0.83, and 1.0, respectively. The Bengali questionnaire detected considerable overlap of FD symptoms among patients with IBS, IBS among patients with FD, and FD among patients with FC, which were not detected by the clinicians.

conclusionsWe successfully translated and validated the EAR3Q in Bengali. We believe that this translated questionnaire will be useful for clinical evaluation and research on FGIDs in the Bengali-speaking population.

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BangladeshConstipationDyspepsiaIndiaIrritable bowel syndrome

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