World IBD Day takes place on 19 May each year and unites people worldwide in their fight against Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, known as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD).
This year our theme for World IBD Day is IBD HAS NO AGE : World IBD Day 2023
Purple Ribbon Awareness
Many of the IBD associations linked to World IBD Day are using the purple ribbon as a symbol of awareness...
Active Projects
The European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation [ECCO] produces and regularly updates several guidelines to provide evidence-based guidance on critical aspects of IBD care to all health care professionals who manage patients with IBD.
Since the initiation of the first project in 2006, the ECCO Guidelines have become standard references for IBD management in Europe and around the world. The...
Fatigue is an important underecognized clinical problem in patients with IBD and one of the most frequently reported concerns of patients. It affects nearly 50 % of patients in clinical remission and 80% of those with active disease, resulting in a decrease in quality of life and impaired work productivity and functioning.
Fatigue is a debilitating, multidimensional and multifactorial...
One of our flagship activities in terms of patient empowerment is the EFCCA Academy. The Academy was launched in 2018 to provide specialized training for people with IBD enabling them to raise awareness on specific topics and to become advocates for their IBD patient community. Academy qualified patients will become trainers of trainers within their own local community. Training usually takes...
Final Results available!
We are excited to share our findings of the survey “The impact of perianal fistula in Crohn’s disease on quality of life” which is being presented virtually at the 16th ECCO Congress (2nd – 3rd and 8th – 10th July, 2021.) Check out the e-poster with the full results!
Go to Patient_Survey Poster_ECCO2020_0.pdf
Go to poster...
The global impact of COVID-19 has been overwhelming and without pause, accelerating at lightning speed, changing our lives and our way of seeing the world. In recent months, unfortunately, the philosophy of our organization, which is to create spaces for meeting, for dialogue between the various associations and all the interlocutors. has also had to change.
EFCCA has rapidly moved across a...
EFCCA has been involved in an exciting project aimed at helping people to ‘live well’ with IBD. We have developed a series of animation videos that will equip people with practical advice and relevant information and hopefully will bring about positive changes to the way they cope with their disease. The topics are as follows:
My IBD Journey: "Life after IBD diagnosis"
My IBD Journey...
Transitioning through paediatric and into adult care is a critical time for patients and, if not carried out effectively and appropriately, can impact on education, mental health and patient outcomes. It has become clear that this is a major issue for patients, their carers and clinicians and that the transition process within and across Europe urgently needs reform.
Within this context, the...