P248 Validation of IBD-disk for the assessment of daily-life burden of patients with inflammatory bowel disease
Authors: Tadbiri S , Nachury M , Bouhnik Y , Serrero M , Jerome F , Roblin X , Bourrier A , Bouguen G , Franchimont D , Savoye G , Buisson A , Louis E , Nancey S , Abtibol V , Reimund J M , DeWitt O , Vuitton L , Matthieu N , Peyrin-Biroulet L , Gilletta C , Allez M , Viennot S , Bourreille A , Dib N , Brixi H , Boualit M , Plastaras L , Altwegg R , Fumery M , Caillo L , Laharie D , Amiot A 
Published: January 2020

Background

The IBD-disk is a 10-item visual tool assessing inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD)-related disability. It could be a valuable tool in daily practice but it has not been validated. In a cohort of patients with IBD, we aimed to determine the correlation between the IBD-disk and each of its components with the IBD daily-life burden.

Methods

A 1-week cross-sectional study has been conducted in 42 centres affiliated to the GETAID in France and Belgium in November 2018. Patients were asked to fulfil the IBD-disk questionnaire and an IBD daily-life burden visual analogic scale (VAS: 0 = no burden; 10 = maximal burden). The validation included for internal consistency, correlation analysis and diagnostic performance assessment. In addition, we evaluated the completion rate as well as patient satisfaction for IBD-disk. Multivariate analysis was performed to determine predictors of moderate-to-severe IBD-related disability.

Results

Among the 2011 IBD outpatients who responded to the survey (67.8% of patients with Crohn’s disease), 49.9% were in clinical remission. The full completion rate of the IBD-disk was 73.8%. It was considered easy to fulfil by 88.4% of patients. The mean IBD-disk score was 39.0 ± 23.2 (best score 0, worst 100). The IBD-disk score was well correlated with IBD daily-life burden VAS (r = 0.62; p &lt; 0.001). With the optimal IBD-disk cut-off of 40, AUROC for high IBD daily-life burden was 0.81 (CI95%: 0.79–0.83; p &lt; 0.001). Using multiple logistic regression, a shortened IBD-disk score using only 5 items (abdominal pain + regulating defecation x2 + work and education x3 + emotions + energy) of the IBD-disk had similar correlation and diagnosis performance than the complete IBD-disk score (AUROC=0.82 [0.79–0.83]; p &lt; 0.001) for assessing IBD daily-life burden. In multivariate analysis, moderate-to-severe disability (overall IBD-disk score &gt; 40) was significantly increased in patients with frequent sick leave &gt; 0.3 per year, with general practitioner appointment &gt; 2 per year, with concerns about the lack of efficacy of their current treatment, perceived need of psychotherapist or IBD-nurse whereas it was decreased in patients with clinical remission assessed by patient global assessment and employed or student occupational status.

Conclusion

The IBD-disk had a good completion rate and demonstrated a close correlation with daily-life IBD burden and good internal consistency, in a large multicentre cohort of IBD patients. Our results suggest that the IBD-disk could be a valuable tool in routine practice to assess daily-life IBD burden. Although a simplified 5-item IBD-disk demonstrated better performance to assess IBDdaily-life burden, the overall score, the IBD-disk allows exploring all dimensions of IBD daily-life burden.