Patient attitudes towards faecal sampling for gut microbiome studies and clinical care reveal positive engagement and room for improvement.

ABSTRACT: Faecal sample collection is crucial for gut microbiome research and its clinical applications. However, while patients and healthy volunteers are routinely asked to provide stool samples, their attitudes towards sampling remain largely unknown. Here, we investigate the attitudes of 780 Dutch patients, including participants in a large Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) gut microbiome cohort and population controls, in order to identify barriers to sample collection and provide recommendations for gut microbiome researchers and clinicians. We sent questionnaires to 660 IBD patients and 112 patients with other disorders who had previously been approached to participate in gut microbiome studies. We also conducted 478 brief interviews with participants in our general population cohort who had c

SUBMITTER: Bolte LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8031379 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature