A study examining the effect of consuming foods containing probiotics on anxiety and depressive symptoms : A non-randomized and open trial
- Conditions
- Schizophrenia
- Registration Number
- JPRN-UMIN000025417
- Lead Sponsor
- Hokkaido University Hospital Department of Psychiatry and Neurology
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete: follow-up continuing
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 40
Not provided
1. Subjects who have uncontrolled diseases or untreatable malignant tumor. 2. Subjects who have cognitive impairment disorder or disturbance of consciousness 3. Subjects who have severe idea of suicide or symptoms that require to urgent treatment 4. Subjects who want to take medications for anxiety or depressive symptoms 5. Subjects who have taken antidepressants in the last month 6. Subjects whose daily intake of food or supplements includes Bifidobacterium 7. Subjects who daily consume a high amount of alcohol (more than 500 ml of beer per day) 8. Subjects who have mental disorders not including schizophrenia, mood disorder, or anxiety disorder 9. Subjects who are deemed to be inappropriate to participate in this study, by the physician in charge of this study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The correlation coefficient between increase in the Bifidobacterium occupancy rate and decrease in HADS score for 4 weeks in low Bifidobacterium group
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method