“…This is a secondary analysis, developed from an epidemiological population-based, descriptive, exploratory and cross-sectional study, with quantitative approach, conducted between 2008 and 2009 in the urban area of Londrina -Parana, on the bowel habits of this population (12) . At the time of data collection, the city had a population of 447,065 inhabitants, of which 305,695 individuals were over 18 years old, according to the census of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics -IBGE 2000.…”