Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Irritable bowel syndrome without diarrhoea ,Irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhoea
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention 1: Intervention in the first intervention group:Laughter Yoga:Laughter Yoga combines unconditional laugh with yoga breathing and yoga stretching exercises, and people laughing without any
Behavior
Treatment - Drugs
Intervention in the second intervention group:
Anti-anxiety treatment:
Sertraline, 50 mg orally once a day for seven weeks
Control group:
Symptomatic treatment with loperamide and hyoscine
Loperamide: 2 mg orally three to four times a day for seven weeks
Hyoscine: 20 mg orally four times a day for seven weeks
Intervention in the first intervention group:Laughter Yoga:Laughter Yoga combines unconditional laugh with yoga breathing and yoga stretching exercises, and people laughing without any jokes. Meetings
Sponsors
Vice Chancellor for research of Birjand University of Medical Sciences
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 50 Years
Inclusion criteria
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
Exclusion criteria: Patients who receive psychological treatments before entering the study Patients who have any other anatomical or functional gastrointestinal disorders
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 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
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Anxiety severity. Timepoint: Before and right after the end of intervention. Method of measurement: Anxiety score from beck anxiety inventory. | — |
Countries
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Contacts
Public ContactDr Davoody Navid
Faculty of medicine, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, South Khorasan, Iran.
Outcome results
None listed