Original ArticleHigh Prevalence of Nausea among School Children in Latin America
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Methods
This cross-sectional, community-based study was conducted between May 2013 and June 2014 in Central and South American schools in the countries of El Salvador, Panama, and Ecuador. The investigators selected the capital cities of each of the countries: San Salvador (population 316 090), Panama City (population 880 691), and Quito (population 1 607 734) to conduct the epidemiologic study because of large population sizes and diversity. To assure ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic diversity, we
Results
A total of 1380 parents were invited to participate in the study and 1207 (87.5%) parents (569, 50.0% public schools and 568, 50.0% private schools) consented to their children's participation. Thirty-five subjects (2.9%) were excluded from the study based on the presence of one or more organic disorders. Eighty-two percent of those children enrolled in the study completed the questionnaires (n = 1137; Figure 1). The distribution of the subjects who completed the study by country was El
Discussion
Our results highlight that nausea was: (1) present in almost 16% of all school children; (2) significantly more common in those suffering from a FGID compared with those who did not; (3) significantly more common in girls and children attending private schools; and (4) was common in conjunction with constipation, even though it was well distributed across various FGIDs. These findings are important as they shed light to the common occurrence of FGIDs and chronic nausea in school children who
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