The use of questionnaires in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease.

Inflammatory bowel disease is a chronic illness with symptoms including abdominal pain, weight loss, chronic diarrhea, hematochezia, and growth failure. It affects both children and adults. The goal of management is to induce and maintain clinical remission and to reduce psychosocial and quality of life issues caused by the disease. Various questionnaires have been developed to help physicians and investigators gain information regarding health-related quality of life, treatment satisfaction, disease activity, and disease-specific knowledge. The purpose of this review is to discuss the questionnaires available to clinicians treating children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease.