Impacts of bowel urgency on daily lives of patients and health care professional (HCP)–patient communication in the United States (US) and Europe (EUR). (A) Frequency of diaper/pad/other protection use due to fear/anticipation of fecal urge incontinence. (B) The impact of experiencing bowel urgency on work/school (among patients who ever experienced bowel urgency). (C) Percentages of patient not comfortable discussing bowel urgency with their HCP, whereby patients rated how comfortable they are at reporting bowel urgency to their HCP on a scale of 1 (not at all comfortable) to 7 (completely comfortable); patients with scores ≤4 are shown. (D) Reasons for patients feeling uncomfortable reporting bowel urgency to HCPs. (E) Percentages of patients (who have experienced bowel urgency in the past month) that discuss bowel urgency at every appointment. (F) Percentages of patients (who do not discuss bowel urgency at every appointment) who would like to discuss bowel urgency more frequently with their HCP. (G) HCP-reported symptoms proactively discussed at a routine appointment. (H) Reasons for HCPs not proactively discussing bowel urgency in routine appointments. (I) HCP-perceived most impactful symptoms on treatment decisions. HCPs were asked to choose from a list of possible symptoms the top 3 most impactful on treatment decisions.