Feasibility of quantitative measurement of several components in abdominal examination for functional dyspepsia

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 120

Inclusion Criteria

1. Patient inclusion criteria
1) Subjects between the ages of 20 and 65 years;
2) Subjects who meet functional dyspepsia (FD) definition of Rome ? criteria and have undergone the above symptoms for a minimum of three months from at least six months ago to the present time.

2. Control inclusion criteria
1) Subjects who have no problem communication;
2) Subjects who check less than 20 mm visual analogue scale for dyspeptic symptoms;
3) Subjects who have not gastrointestinal disorder and symptoms;
4) Subjects who have not serious structural diseases (disease of liver, heart, lung, or kidney);

Exclusion Criteria

1) Subjects who have organic disease such as peptic ulcer or gastroesophageal reflux disease go through esophagogastroduodenoscopy and laboratory test;
2) Subjects who have obvious signs of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS);
3) Subjects who have alarm symptoms (e.g., weight loss, black or tar stool, or dysphagia);
4) Subjects who have serious structural disease (e.g., disease of heart, lung, liver or kidney) or mental illness;
5) Subjects who have had surgery related with the gastrointestinal tract, except for appendectomy more than six months ago;
6) Subjects who are pregnant or breastfeeding;
7) Subjects who have taken any other clinical trial within 1 months;
8) Subjects who are human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive;
9) Subjects who have difficulty in attending the trial (e.g., paralysis, severe mental or psychological abnormality, dementia, drug addiction, time constraint, severe disorder in vision or hearing, outpatient treatment impossibility, illiteracy).

Study & Design

Study Type: Observational Study

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Costal angle (sterno-costal angle)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Abdominal sound evaluated by stethoscope;Abominal diagnosis by Korean medicine doctor;Questionnare of patter identification for functional dyspepsia;Damum questionnaire;Food retention questionnaire;Spleen qi deficiency questionnaire;Scale for stomach qi deficiency pattern;Cold-heat questionnaire;Deficiency-excess questionnaire;Nepean dyspepsia index - Korean version;Abdominal wall thickness evaluated by sonography;Gastric emptying test using ultrasonography;Pressure depth evaluated by algometer

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