title: Maladjustment to Academic Life and Employment Anxiety in University Students with Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
abstract: The present study tested our hypothesis that university students with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) may experience less satisfactory academic lives than those of students without IBS. We also verified the hypothesis that university students with IBS might have higher employment anxiety than students without IBS might. We conducted a cross-sectional study of 1,686 university students. Presence or absence of IBS was assessed via the Rome III Questionnaire. Two original items were used to evaluate academic life. The prevalence rates of IBS with diarrhea, IBS with constipation, mixed IBS, and unsubtyped IBS in the study population were 5%, 2%, 10%, and 3%, respectively. Regarding academic life, the proportions of participants who experienced maladjustment and employment anxiety were 29% and 50%, respectively. After adjusting for age, sex, and faculty, the odds ratios for maladjustment and employment anxiety were significantly higher in students who screened positively, relative to those who screened negatively, for IBS (OR, 1.62; 95% CI, 1.24-2.21; OR, 2.16; 95% CI, 1.68-2.81, respectively). In conclusion, maladjustment and anxiety over future employment were higher in university students with IBS relative to those without.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Education, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan; Center for Health and Community Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tayama
authors.affiliation: Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
authors.forename: Naoki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nakaya
authors.affiliation: Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Health and Social Services, Saitama Prefectural University, Saitama, Japan.
authors.forename: Toyohiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hamaguchi
authors.affiliation: Center for Health and Community Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
authors.forename: Tatsuo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Saigo
authors.affiliation: Unit of Preventive Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Takeoka
authors.affiliation: Department of Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health Science, Tohoku Fukushi University, Sendai, Japan.
authors.forename: Toshimasa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sone
authors.affiliation: Department of Behavioral Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
authors.forename: Shin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fukudo
authors.affiliation: Center for Health and Community Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
authors.forename: Susumu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shirabe
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003248:Constipation / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D043183:Irritable Bowel Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D016017:Odds Ratio; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D013334:Students; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult