By using the Internet, we were able to recruit a large number of subjects with little effort. The subjects were predominantly from the United States, but a significant proportion were from other countries. The sample was heterogeneous, including a range of disease severity, disease duration and treatments. However, this study was limited by the inherent [...]
In keeping with other single-centre studies, we have shown that the use of CAM by patients with IBD is common. The proportions of patients who had used or were currently using CAM were very similar to the proportions found in our earlier study of IBD patients in Calgary. Also in keeping with our previous study [...]
Responses were received from 275 people. Twelve responses were not included in the analysis because the respondents did not indicate whether they had used CAM or no disease information was provided, making it questionable whether they had IBD. Of the 263 eligible responses, 104 were completed during phase 1 and 159 were completed during phase [...]
The questionnaire used in our survey of local IBD patients was converted into hypertext markup language and made available over the World Wide Web via the University of Calgary GI Research Group website. (The questionnaire is available from the authors.) The questionnaire included questions on demographic and disease characteristics, and on current and past use [...]
Complementary and alternative medicine use by patients with inflammatory bowel disease: An Internet survey Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use is increasing in Western countries. Astin reported that 40% of American adults had used some form of CAM in the previous year. CAM differs from conventional medicine in many important ways, including beliefs about disease [...]
The most striking finding in this study was the overall, about three to one, preponderance of patients with ulcerative colitis versus Crohn’s disease. This is consistent with observations for South Asian immigrants in the United Kingdom. In the latter report, adults from two hospitals (East Birmingham Hospital, the Bradford Royal Infirmary) and children (St Bartholomew’s [...]
Patient population: In this prospectively studied population cohort of Indo-Canadians residing in the metropolitan area of Vancouver, a clinical diagnosis of ulcerative colitis was established in 62 of 84 patients (almost 75%) with IBD; the other 22 patients had Crohn’s disease (Table 1). This distribution contrasts with the results of a prospectively studied population of [...]
