Yoga for Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Universität Duisburg-Essen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Treatments: Behavioral: Nutrition Counselling; Behavioral: Yoga

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02721836

15-6653-BO

Details and patient eligibility

About

The proposed study aims to investigate the feasibility, effectiveness, and perceived benefit of a hatha yoga intervention for patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) compared to nutrition counselling. Further, the potential of both interventions to influence the gut microbiome will be inquired.

Enrollment: 59 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) diagnosed by physician and confirmed by Rome III diagnostic criteria

Exclusion criteria

• inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD)
• total abdominal colectomy
• no sonographie or colonoscopy as diagnostic criterion
• stool lactoferrin > 7mg/g
• pregnancy or breast feeding
• simultaneous participation in further clinical intervention trials
• Regular yoga practice or nutrition counselling in the past 12 months
• Planned surgery in the study period
• Serious illness that would interfere with the ability to practice yoga

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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59 participants in 2 patient groups

Yoga

Experimental group

Description:

12 week yoga course, two times a week 75 minutes each time

Treatment:

Behavioral: Yoga

Nutrition

Active Comparator group

Description:

3 counselling sessions within 12 weeks

Treatment:

Behavioral: Nutrition Counselling