Gastroenterol Clin North Am. 2022 Dec;51(4):885-895.doi: 10.1016/j.gtc.2022.07.013.

Tina Aswani-Omprakash ¹, Neha D Shah ²

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¹Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA; South Asian IBD Alliance, New York, NY 10021, USA. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/@ownyourcrohns.

²South Asian IBD Alliance, New York, NY 10021, USA; Colitis and Crohn's Disease Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA; Neha Shah Nutrition, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA. Electronic address: neha.shah@ucsf.edu.

Abstract

The prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is increasing substantially in non-White races and ethnicities in the United States. As a part of promoting quality of life in patients with IBD, the optimization of food-related quality of life (FRQoL) is also indicated. It is known that the practices of food avoidance and restrictive eating are associated with a reduced FRQoL in IBD. Gaining insight into sociocultural influences on FRQoL will aid in the provision of culturally competent interventions to improve FRQoL in patients with IBD.