Effects of Fasting on Self Efficacy (TheraFast)

Universität Duisburg-Essen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Irritable Bowel Syndrome; Fibromyalgia; Gastrointestinal Diseases; Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Arthritis; Chronic Pain; Cardiovascular Diseases; Headache; Gout; Rheumatoid Arthritis

Treatments: Behavioral: Fasting

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02113111

13-5522 TheraFast

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aims to investigate

• if a 7 day therapeutic fasting regimen will affect self-efficacy of patients with chronic diseases
• the effects of fasting on physical and mental well-being, quality of life and body awareness/image
• the association between patients characteristics and the perceived health benefit after fasting
• the association between Diagnosis according to traditional Chinese medicine and physical and mental well-being during the course of fasting
• experiences and perceptions of patients during fasting therapy

Full description

see above

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years or older
• eligible for fasting, i.e. normal weight (no anorexia, no nutritional deficiency, no BMI<18 or >35, no eating disorder)

Exclusion criteria

• psychiatric disorder
• type 1 diabetes
• hepatitis
• severe somatic disorder (oncological disease, hepatological or nephrological)
• pregnancy

Trial design

120 participants in 1 patient group

Fasting

Description:

Patients being admitted to an internal integrative medicine hospital and referred to therapeutic fasting therapy

Treatment:

Behavioral: Fasting