Ami D Sperber, Serhat Bor, Xuicai Fang, Shrikant I Bangdiwala, Douglas A Drossman, Uday C Ghoshal, Magnus Simren, Jan Tack, William E Whitehead, Dan L Dumitrascu, Shin Fukudo, John Kellow, Edith Okeke, Eamonn M M Quigley, Max Schmulson, Peter Whorwell, Timothy Archampong, Payman Adibi, Viola Andresen, Marc A Benninga, Bruno Bonaz, Luis Bustos Fernandez, Suck Chei Choi, Enrico S Corazziari, Carlos Francisconi, Albis Hani, Leonid Lazebnik, Yeong Yeh Lee, Agata Mulak, M Masudur Rahman, Javier Santos, Mashiko Setshedi, Ari Fahrial Syam, Stephen Vanner, Reuben K Wong, Aurelio Lopez-Colombo, Valeria Costa, Ram Dickman, Motoyori Kanazawa, Ammar Hassanzadeh Keshteli, Rutaba Khatun, Iradj Maleki, Pierre Poitras, Nitesh Pratap, Oksana Stefanyuk, Sandie Thomson, Murat Buyruk, Nalan Unal, Dan Huang, Jun Song, Johann P Hreinsson, Olafur S Palsson
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The Rome Foundation Global Epidemiology Study (RFGES) assessed the prevalence, burden, and associated factors of Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction (DGBI) in 33 countries around the world. Achieving worldwide sampling necessitated use of two different surveying methods: In-person household interviews (9 countries) and Internet surveys (26 countries). Two countries, China and Turkey, were surveyed with both methods. This paper examines the differences in the survey results with the two methods, as well as likely reasons for those differences...
April 5, 2023: Neurogastroenterology and Motility: the Official Journal of the European Gastrointestinal Motility Society