Of Everyday Interest:
• 64 per cent say having IBD has influenced their choice of career;
• 50 per cent have left or lost a job at least in part due to having IBD;
• 61 per cent felt having IBD has held them back from advancing in their careers;
• 66 per cent experienced depression and anxiety during an active flare of their disease.
• 44 per cent have had an accident in public because they couldn’t get to a bathroom in time.
• 89 per cent of people who had IBD as children feel they could have achieved more at school if they did not have the disease;
• 80 per cent of people who had IBD as children missed out on sports and activities as a child, and feel now they are less fit than their peers due to their IBD;
• 81 per cent of people who had IBD as children had an accident at school that caused them shame or embarrassment.
• 69 per cent of people who had IBD when they were young were delayed in completing their post-secondary education due to their disease.
