CUKUROVA MEDICAL JOURNAL, cilt.42, sa.2, ss.216-222, 2017 (ESCI)
Purpose: Irritable Bowel Syndrome includes a group of functional bowel diseases without organic pathology. The prevalence changes between 0.5% to 39% according to diagnostic criteria. In this study, we aimed to investigate the prevalence and characteristics of IBS in primary health care by using Rome III criteria.