A New approach and conceptual model for understanding systemic sclerosis-associated gastrointestinal symptoms

A broad understanding of factors that contribute to symptoms is necessary to understand the experience of SSc-GI disease and develop targeted therapies that modify the SSc-GI disease course. Due to a lack of objective clinical outcome measures in SSc-GI disease, qualitative research methodologies are essential for deepening our understanding of these patient experiences and developing new outcome measures to enable trials to establish an evidence-based approach to SSc-GI disease.