Status:

COMPLETED

Development of a Questionnaire to Measure Hypervigilance for Visceral Pain

Lead Sponsor:

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Collaborating Sponsors:

Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc.

Conditions:

Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Brief Summary

The aim of this study is to develop and validate a questionnaire (non-invasive technique) to identify patients who are hypervigilant for noxious visceral sensations and who show a lower threshold to r...

Detailed Description

Methods: There are two phases to the project: (1) Development of the pool of items (questions), and (2) validating individual items based on their correlation with an objective gold standard - the res...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • clinical diagnosis of IBS
  • meets Rome III criteria for IBS
  • women or men aged 18 or older

Exclusion

  • use of IBS-specific compounds, opiates, anticholinergics, or any drug likely to cause constipation as a side-effect
  • use of analgesics for 48 hours prior to the study
  • hypothyroid
  • history of bowel resection except appendectomy or cholecystectomy
  • psychotic disorder, major depression, substance abuse (other than tobacco)or other psychiatric condition likely to interfere with the conduct of the study
  • renal disease
  • patients with inflammatory or ischemic disease of the rectum
  • known to be unreliable.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

February 1 2008

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

June 1 2010

Estimated Enrollment :

157 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01166802

Start Date

February 1 2008

End Date

June 1 2010

Last Update

July 21 2010

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UNC Center for Clinical and Translational Research

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 27599