Crohn's Disease
Conditions
Keywords
crohns, quality of life, lifestyle changing, remmision
Brief summary
Subjects that participate in the practical workshop will improve their quality of life and will stay longer in remmision , in compare to the participants that will continue their regular threatment
Detailed description
Participants will be randomly assigned to a regular threatment (control group) or to a lifestyle changing workshop. The workshop will consist of 11 meetings with behavioral lessons in nutrition, cooking, stress realese and physical activity. The study population will include 100 crohn's disease patients in remmision that will be recruited and will be randomly divided into two groups: an intervention group of 50 will commence the workshop during 2007 and a control group of 50 who will continue their regular threatment. an IBDQ , CDAI and blood samples for metabolic index will be taken from the participant in the staudy before entering the study and every half a year for three years.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALlifestyle changing workshop
Sponsors
Hadassah Medical Organization
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* over 18 years of age * diagnosed with CD * Crohn's Disease Activity Index (CDAI) of under 170 * a minimum of 75% of the meetings
Exclusion criteria
* patients with a stoma * and patients with a planned admission to the hospital for surgery or other treatment.
Countries
Israel
Outcome results
None listed