Physical Activity in IBS - a Long Term Follow up

Sahlgrenska University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

Treatments: Behavioral: Increased physical activity

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01774695

VGFOUSA-181101

Details and patient eligibility

About

Increased physical activity has in the investigators recent study been shown to improve symptoms in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The aim of this study was to assess the long term effects of the investigators previous intervention in IBS patients to improve physical activity. The investigators aimed to assess the long term effects on IBS symptoms as well as quality of life, fatigue, depression and anxiety.

Full description

86 patients who had been included in the investigators previous study "Physical Activity Improves Symptoms in Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Randomized Controlled Trial" were contacted and asked to participate in a long term follow up 5 years after the previous study. The subjects attended one visit at which they underwent a bicycle ergometer test to calculate the oxygen uptake and filled out questionnaires.

Enrollment: 39 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Baseline data from the previous study

Exclusion criteria

• pregnancy
• organic gastrointestinal disorders
• cardiac disease
• respiratory disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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39 participants in 1 patient group

Control and intervention

Other group

Description:

In the first study half of the subjects first served as controls for 12 weeks and then they went through the intervention. The other half only went through the intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Increased physical activity