the efficacy of persian medicine based life style modification on functional bloating: a randomized controlled clinical trial

Functional bloating is one of the gastrointestinal diseases that impacts the quality of life and socialactivities of the patients. the present study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of lifestyle modificationbased on persian medicine (pm) on functional bloating improvement. fifty patients with functionalbloating and rome iii confirmation criteria were enrolled in the study groups of control and intervention.the intervention group received lifestyle modification education based on pm perspectives,and the control group did not receive any training. the score of implementing pm recommendationsby patients was evaluated by the questionnaire of “compliance with the pm principles effective onfunctional bloating” once every two weeks during the two months of the study. the severity of clinicalcomplications associated with functional bloating (cafb) was also evaluated before and after thestudy by visual analog scale. primary and secondary outcomes were analyzed by t-test and ancovain spss version 19. the qualitative data analysis was performed via chi-square and mann-whitneytests. the severity of clinical cafb was significantly higher in women at baseline compare to men (p= 0.027). lifestyle modification of patients led to a gradual increase in compliance with the pm principles.by the end of the study, the mean score of compliance with the pm principles in the interventiongroup was significantly higher compared to the pre-intervention score (p<0.0001) and also comparedto the control group (p < 0.0001). besides, the educational intervention resulted in a significant decrease(51.8%) in the mean severity of all clinical cafb in the intervention group compare to baseline(p<0.0001) and also between the control group and the intervention group (p < 0.0001). therefore,lifestyle modification based on pm probably can be effective in improving the clinical complicationsof functional bloating.