International Journal of Pediatrics Research

Objective To investigate the risk factors related to Function Constipation (FC) in children aged 3-7 years in Baotou. Methods The FC related factors questionnaire made by ourselves based on the Rome IV diagnostic criteria was used to investigate. Children with FC who were admitted to the First Affiliated Hospital of Baotou Medical College from October 2022 to November 2023 were selected as the observation group, and healthy children who underwent physical examination in our hospital during the same period were selected as the control group. The clinical data of the two groups of children were analyzed to understand the status quo of children with FC, and the related risk factors of FC were analyzed and discussed. Results A total of 850 questionnaires were sent out in this survey, and 778 were effective, the effective rate was 91.3%, 258 cases (33.16%) in FC group and 520 cases (66.84%) in healthy children group. All the children in the sample were aged from 3 to 7 years, including 355 boys (46.63%) and 423 girls (53.37%). The factors that may lead to FC were collected by questionnaires, and univariate analysis and multivariate Logistic regression analysis were performed. The results showed that there was statistical significance between the two groups of children in different ages (P < 0.05), but there was no statistical significance between different genders and different nationalities (P > 0.05). Allergy, family history of constipation, dietary pattern, drinking milk at night, picky eating, and deliberate holding of bowels were the risk factors for functional constipation in children (OR values were 2.618, 7.720, 2.028, 2.222, 3.125, 35.603, P < 0.05). Conclusion The pathogenesis of FC children aged 3-7 years in Baotou city studied in this paper is closely related to multiple risk factors such as allergy, family history of constipation, dietary pattern, intentional constipation, etc. Timely intervention can be started from the risk factors, so as to achieve the purpose of prevention and treatment of functional constipation.

Functional constipation; Children; Risk factors; Questionnaire survey