Efficacy of Laughter Yoga and anti-anxiety drugs on irritable bowel syndrome
Phase 2
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome.Irritable bowel syndrome without diarrhoea ,Irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhoeaK58.9, K58
- Registration Number
- IRCT20170829035966N1
- Lead Sponsor
- Vice Chancellor for research of Birjand University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 60
Inclusion Criteria
Patients aged between 18 and 50 years old
Patients who accepted to participate in the study after explaining the purposes of the study and advantages and disadvantages of the interventions
There should be the possibility to keep the type and dose of the medications fixed during the study
Patients who do not have psychotic or personality disorders
Patients who do not have alarm signs including gastrointestinal bleeding, blood in stool, fever, weight loss, anemia, diarrhea at night, severe abdominal pain and so on
Exclusion Criteria
Patients who receive psychological treatments before entering the study
Patients who have any other anatomical or functional gastrointestinal disorders
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Irritable Bowel Syndrome severity. Timepoint: Before and right after the end of intervention. Method of measurement: Irritable Bowel Syndrome severity score system designed by Francis CY in 1997: mild (8 to 18) - moderate (18 to 30) - severe ( more than 30).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Anxiety severity. Timepoint: Before and right after the end of intervention. Method of measurement: Anxiety score from beck anxiety inventory.