The Efficacy of Persian Medicine Based Life Style Modification on Functional Bloating: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial
| Autor: | Mohammad Mahdi Naghizadeh, Mahsa Rostami Chaijan, Alireza Moulazadeh, Ahmad Khonche, Ahmadreza Sharifi Olounabi, Mehdi Sardari, Masih Sedigh Rahimabadi, Mohsen Saberi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Complementary and Manual Therapy
medicine.medical_specialty Visual analogue scale Medicine (miscellaneous) law.invention Randomized controlled trial law Intervention (counseling) medicine Persian Life style business.industry digestive oral and skin physiology Lifestyle Rome iii Persian medicine language.human_language Functional bloating Clinical trial Complementary and alternative medicine Physical therapy language Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270 business |
| Zdroj: | Traditional and Integrative Medicine, Vol 6, Iss 2 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2476-5112 2476-5104 |
| Popis: | Functional bloating is one of the gastrointestinal diseases that impacts the quality of life and social activities of the patients. The present study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of lifestyle modification based on Persian Medicine (PM) on functional bloating improvement. Fifty patients with functional bloating and ROME III confirmation criteria were enrolled in the study groups of control and intervention. The intervention group received lifestyle modification education based on PM perspectives, and the control group did not receive any training. The score of implementing PM recommendations by patients was evaluated by the questionnaire of “compliance with the PM principles effective on functional bloating” once every two weeks during the two months of the study. The severity of clinical Complications Associated with Functional Bloating (CAFB) was also evaluated before and after the study by visual analog scale. Primary and secondary outcomes were analyzed by t-test and ANCOVA in SPSS version 19. The qualitative data analysis was performed via Chi-square and Mann-Whitney tests. The severity of clinical CAFB was significantly higher in women at baseline (P = 0.027). Lifestyle modification of patients led to a gradual increase in compliance with the PM principles. By the end of the study, the mean score of compliance with the PM principles in the intervention group was significantly higher compared to the pre-intervention score (P |
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