Effects of Fasting on Self Efficacy

Completed

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

• Registration Number: NCT02113111
• Lead Sponsor: Universität Duisburg-Essen

Brief Summary

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

Detailed Description

see above

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2014-04
• Study First Submitted: 2014-04-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-04-11
• Study First Posted: 2014-04-14
• Primary Completion: 2015-07
• Status Verified: 2015-09
• Study Completion: 2015-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-09-03
• Last Update Posted: 2015-09-04

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 120

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Fasting	Fasting	Patients being admitted to an internal integrative medicine hospital and referred to therapeutic fasting therapy

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Bodily self-efficacy	up to 6 months	Bodily self-efficacy (Schützler and Witt, 2013)
Self efficacy questionnaire	up to 6 months	Self efficacy questionnaire (SWE) by Schwarzer and Jerusalem, 1999

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Health-related quality of life	2 weeks, 6 months	Short Form (36) Health Survey
Depression	2 weeks, 6 months	Becks Depression Inventory (BDI)
Easiness of life	2 weeks, 6 months	Questionnaire on emotional and physical reactions
Body awareness and dissociation	2 weeks, 6 months	Scale of Body Connection (SBC) (Price and Thompson 2007)
Symptoms	2 weeks, 6 months	MYMOP questionnaire (Paterson)
Ability and will to change	2 weeks, 6 months	Ability and will to change (Büssing, 2008)
Body Awareness	2 weeks, 6 months	Body Awareness Questionnaire (BAQ) (Shields 1989)
Body responsiveness	2 weeks, 6 months	Body Responsiveness Scale (BRS)(Daubenmier 2005)
Safety	2 weeks	Any adverse effect during the study period

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Department of Internal and Integrative Medicine, Kliniken Essen-Mitte; 🇩🇪 Essen, Germany