Reliability
High internal consistency was found for all questions (QoL Global) with Cronbach’s alpha value 0.92. The EF (emotional functioning) and RF (relational functioning) subscales also had good internal consistency with Cronbach’s alpha value 0.91 and 0.77 respectively. GSS subscale consists of 4 items and the Cronbach’s alpha value was 0.47 when considering all these 4 items. But when we considered only items 4 and 14 which directly deal with bowel symptoms, Cronbach’s alpha value was 0.80.