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IBS patients differ according to age: self-reported symptom severity is related

with functional constipation, ranging in age from six to eighteen years (M 9.9, SD 3.2), and their parents. Children completed self-report measures of defecation anxiety scale (Defecation Anxiety Scale–Self-Report) and general anxiety (Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale), and their parents rated their children’s defecation anxiety (Defecation Anxiety Scale—Parent Rating Scales). The information was collected prospectively. Results: By self-report and parent report, children with functional constipation were found to have more defecation anxiety than a normative group of well children. By parent report, children with constipation were also found to have more defecation anxiety than a normative group of children with asthma. As a whole, children with constipation did not manifest clinically significant general anxiety. Defecation anxiety and general anxiety were found to be positively correlated. Discussion: The results suggest that children with functional constipation have significantly more anxiety specific to toileting behavior than well children and, at least by parent report, children with asthma, without displaying significant general anxiety. Though causality cannot be inferred, the positive correlation between defecation anxiety and general anxiety underscores the importance of addressing anxiety when treating children with constipation.