1.1
In the last 3 months, how often did you have pain anywhere in your abdomen?
1.2
How often did this pain in your abdomen happen close in time to a bowel movement -- just before, during, or soon after?
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1.3
How often did your stools become either softer than usual or harder than usual when you had this pain?
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1.4
How often did your stools become either more frequent than usual or less frequent than usual when you had this pain?
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1.5
Has it been 6 months or longer since you started having this pain?
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1.6
Bowel movements
Bowel movements of Type 1 or 2 and also of Type 6 or 7 in the picture above can be considered to be abnormal. Type 1 or 2 means you are constipated, and Type 6 or 7 means you have diarrhea.
1.8
In the last 3 months, when you had abnormal stools, what were they usually like?
rome how often 9
0: 0 - Never
1: 1 - Less than one day a month
2: 2 - One day a month
3: 3 - Two to three days a month
4: 4 - Once a week
5: 5 - Two to three days a week
6: 6 - Most days
7: 7 - Every day
8: 8 - Multiple times per day or all the time
rome percentage
0: 0 - 0% Never
1: 1 - 10%
2: 2 - 20%
3: 3 - 30%
4: 4 - 40%
5: 5 - 50%
6: 6 - 60%
7: 7 - 70%
8: 8 - 80%
9: 9 - 90%
10: 10 - 100% Always
No/Yes
0: 0 - No
1: 1 - Yes
rome question 6
1: 1 - Usually constipation (like Type 1 or 2 in the picture)
2: 2 - Usually diarrhea (like Type 6 or 7)
3: 3 - Both diarrhea and constipation - that is, more than ¼ of all the abnormal bowel movements were constipation and more than ¼ were diarrhea
4: 4 - Not applicable, because I never or rarely had abnormal bowel movements