Inflammatory Bowel Disease-related Behaviours [IBD-Bx] Questionnaire: Development, Validation and Prospective Associations with Fatigue

Disease-related behaviours that may maintain or worsen symptom burden remain largely unexplored in inflammatory bowel disease [IBD]. In this study, we developed and validated an instrument assessing IBD-related, modifiable behaviours and explored which behaviours prospectively correlate with fatigue, a debilitating and common symptom in IBD.Initially, 72 items reflecting IBD-related behaviours were generated based on literature review and input...