Ayurvedic Versus Conventional Counseling in Mothers With Burnout-Syndrome (VEDA)

Charité University Medicine Berlin

Status: Completed

Conditions: Burnout-Syndrome

Treatments: Behavioral: Diet and Lifestyle Counseling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01797887

VEDA-Trial

Details and patient eligibility

About

Aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of Ayurvedic diet and lifestyle counseling compared to conventional standard diet and lifestyle counseling in outpatient mothers with burnout-syndrome.

Full description

Ayurveda is a traditional Indian medicine: as a whole medical system it consists of diagnostic procedures and complex treatments. Ayurveda-treatment is based on Ayurvedic diagnosis and has a special focus on lifestyle and nutritional counseling, based on the individual constitution of the patient. Ayurvedic counseling can easily be followed by the patients in their day-to-day life and is an inexpensive way of self-care. In Ayurveda it is often used for the treatment of burnout-syndrome. However, no systematic data is available on its effectiveness in comparison to conventional standard diet and lifestyle counseling. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of Ayurvedic diet and lifestyle counseling compared to conventional standard diet and lifestyle counseling in outpatient mothers with burnout-syndrome.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• signed informed consent
• age between 18 and 50
• mother of ≥ 1 child ≤ 12 years of age
• job, education or studies ≥ 20 hours per week
• subjective feeling of physical and mental exhaustion since ≥ 3 month
• ≥ 18 points in the MBI Subscale "emotional exhaustion" at screening

Exclusion criteria

• change of psychotropic drug medication ≤ 6 weeks before inclusion
• pregnancy or breastfeeding
• pre-diagnosed major depression
• serious chronic co-morbidity (e.g. CHF NYHA IV)
• serious acute somatic health conditions
• intake of opiods
• simultaneous participation in other trials
• praticipation in other trials during ≤ 6 month before inclusion

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Ayurveda

Experimental group

Description:

Ayurveda Diet and Lifestyle Counseling

Treatment:

Behavioral: Diet and Lifestyle Counseling

Conventional

Active Comparator group

Description:

Standard Conventional Diet and Lifestyle Counseling

Treatment:

Behavioral: Diet and Lifestyle Counseling