Volume 37, Issue 7 pp. 1298-1306
Original Article - Gastroenterology (Clinical)

Functional dyspepsia symptom diary is correlated with other questionnaires and associated with severity in patients with functional dyspepsia: a multicenter, prospective observational study

Xin Shi

Xin Shi

State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases and Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Xin Shi, Hui Luo, and Xiangping Wang contributed equally to the work.Search for more papers by this author
Hui Luo

Hui Luo

State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases and Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Xin Shi, Hui Luo, and Xiangping Wang contributed equally to the work.Search for more papers by this author
Xiangping Wang

Xiangping Wang

State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases and Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

Xin Shi, Hui Luo, and Xiangping Wang contributed equally to the work.Search for more papers by this author
Gui Ren

Gui Ren

State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases and Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

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Linhui Zhang

Linhui Zhang

State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases and Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

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Qin Tao

Qin Tao

State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases and Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

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Shuhui Liang

Shuhui Liang

State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases and Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

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Na Liu

Na Liu

Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

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Xiaojun Huang

Xiaojun Huang

Department of Gastroenterology, Lanzhou University Second Hospital, Lanzhou, China

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Xiaoyin Zhang

Xiaoyin Zhang

Department of Gastroenterology, National Clinical Research Center of Infectious Disease, The Third People's Hospital of Shenzhen, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

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Hui Deng

Hui Deng

Engineering Research Center of Molecular and Neuro Imaging of Ministry of Education, Intelligent Non-Invasive Neuromodulation and Transformation Joint Laboratory, School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, China

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Wei Qin

Wei Qin

Engineering Research Center of Molecular and Neuro Imaging of Ministry of Education, Intelligent Non-Invasive Neuromodulation and Transformation Joint Laboratory, School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, China

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Xiaoyu Kang

Xiaoyu Kang

State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases and Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

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Yanglin Pan

Corresponding Author

Yanglin Pan

State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases and Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

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Dr Yanglin Pan and Dr Daiming Fan, State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases and Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, 127 Changle West Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710032, China.

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Daiming Fan

Corresponding Author

Daiming Fan

State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases and Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China

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Dr Yanglin Pan and Dr Daiming Fan, State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases and Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, 127 Changle West Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710032, China.

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First published: 17 April 2022

Declaration of conflict of interest: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.

Author contributions: Yanglin Pan performed the study concept and design; Hui Luo, Xiangping Wang, Gui Ren, Linhui Zhang, Qin Tao, Shuhui Liang, Na Liu, Xiaojun Huang, and Xiaoying Zhang carried out the acquisition of data; Hui Deng and Wei Qin analyzed and interpreted the data; Xin Shi and Yanglin Pan made the drafting and editing of the manuscript; Daiming Fan was responsible for the critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content; Xin Shi and Hui Luo performed the statistical analysis. All authors approved the final version of the article, including the authorship list.

Financial support: This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81970557).

Guarantor of the article: Daiming Fan.

Abstract

Background and Aim

Functional dyspepsia symptom diary (FDSD) is a newly designed questionnaire of functional dyspepsia (FD). The relationships between FDSD and other FD-related questionnaires and patient-reported severity remain unclear. This study aims to investigate the correlations between FDSD and other questionnaires and to determine the relationships between FDSD and FD severity.

Methods

Consecutive outpatients with FD were prospectively enrolled in four tertiary hospitals. All patients were evaluated by six FD-related questionnaires, including FDSD, Dyspepsia Symptom Severity Index (DSSI), Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale, Short-Form Nepean Dyspepsia Index, and Hamilton Depression and Anxiety Scale (HAMD and HAMA). The severity of FD was also graded as mild, moderate, and severe by patients themselves. Correlations between different scores were assessed by Spearman correlation coefficient (ρ), and risk factors for patient-reported severity were identified.

Results

For 512 enrolled FD patients, the overall median FDSD score was 19 (2–42). FDSD was well correlated with DSSI (ρ = 0.64) and fairly correlated with the other four scores (ρ = 0.32–0.55) (all P < 0.001). Mild, moderate, and severe FD were reported by 18.5%, 55.9%, and 25.6% of patients, respectively. There were seven factors associated with the severe FD, including education level, duration, and subtypes of FD, prior treatment, FDSD, HAMD, and HAMA scores (all P < 0.10). FDSD ≥ 20 (odds ratio [OR] 3.3, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.0–5.2, P < 0.001) and HAMD ≥ 13 (OR 2.9, 95% CI: 1.8–4.6, P < 0.001) were independently associated with patient-reported severe FD.

Conclusions

This study firstly revealed that the newly developed FDSD correlated with other FD-related questionnaires. FDSD ≥ 20 and HAMD ≥ 13 were independently associated with severe FD reported by patients (clinicaltrials.gov number: NCT04953975).

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