BACKGROUND/AIMS: @entity344 ( @entity344 ), diagnosed by symptom-based criteria due to lack of biomarkers, need translatedvalidated questionnaires in different languages. As Bengali, the mother tongue of Bangladesh and eastern India, is the seventh most spoken language in the world, we translated and validated the Enhanced Asian Rome III questionnaire (EAR3Q) in this language. METHODS: The EAR3Q was translated in Bengali as per guideline from the Rome Foundation. The translated questionnaire was validated prospectively on Bengali-speaking @entity392 ( @entity392 , n = 30), and @entity1 with @entity2210 ( @entity2210 , n = 35), @entity1744 ( @entity1744 , n = 40) and functional @entity1142 (FC, n = 12) diagnosed by clinicians using the Rome III criteria. The subjects were asked to fill-in the questionnaire again after 2 weeks, to check for its reproducibility. RESULTS: During translation, the original and the backward translated English versions of the questionnaire demonstrated high concordance. Sensitivity of the Bengali questionnaire to diagnose @entity1 with @entity2210 , @entity1744 , FC, and @entity392 was 100%, 100%, 75%, and 100%, respectively, considering diagnosis by the clinicians as the gold standard. On test-retest reliability analysis, Kappa values for @entity2210 , @entity1744 , FC, and @entity392 were 1.0, 1.0, 0.83, and 1.0, respectively. The Bengali questionnaire detected considerable overlap of @entity2210 symptoms among @entity1 with @entity1744 , @entity1744 among @entity1 with @entity2210 , and @entity2210 among @entity1 with FC, which were not detected by the clinicians. CONCLUSIONS: We successfully translated and validated the EAR3Q in Bengali. We believe that this translated questionnaire will be useful for clinical evaluation and research on @entity344 in the Bengali-speaking population.

Translation and Validation of Enhanced Asian Rome III Questionnaires in Bengali Language for Diagnosis of Functional XXXX .

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients'] @entity344 :: ('MESH:D005767', 'Disease') :: ['FGIDs', 'Functional gastrointestinal disorders'] @entity392 :: ('MESH:D014012', 'Disease') :: ['HS', 'healthy subjects'] @entity2210 :: ('MESH:D004415', 'Disease') :: ['functional dyspepsia', 'FD'] @entity1142 :: ('MESH:D003248', 'Disease') :: ['constipation'] @entity1744 :: ('MESH:D043183', 'Disease') :: ['irritable bowel syndrome', 'IBS']
@entity344 :: (MESH:D005767,Disease) :: ['Gastrointestinal Disorders']
