Role of yoga practice as add-on therapy on severity of bowel movements and anxiety level in irritable bowel syndrome patients

Aims Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a chronic disease that is mostly related with stress and anxiety. Patients with this illness primarily experience irregular bowel movements with abdominal pain. It interferes with individual physical health as well as mental health. Although most of cases lack of diagnosis, people suffer from bowel discomfort that have a strong impact on daily life. This study's major goal was to find out how regular yoga practice helped IBS patients control their stress levels and abdominal pain.

Methods Total 40 newly diagnosed patients from 18-45 years of both male and female genders were included in this study from the Gastroenterology OPD, Dept. of KGMU. IBS patients were classified by using the Rome IV criteria and randomly assigned to one of two groups: conventional treatment with regular yoga practices (group A) and conventional treatment without yoga (group B). Yoga sessions were conducted for the group A, for three months and group B continued to take their prescribed medication only. IBS-Severity Scoring System is a self-reported questionnaire to assess severity of bowel movements and Depression, anxiety, stress scale (DASS-21) was used to assess the severity of psychological stress also we measured serum cortisol level in fasting state of IBS patient.

Results The average serum cortisol level was (10.62±4.28). The result indicates that depression scores of 12% IBS patient indicating severe depression also 38% patients indicating severe IBS. The results shows that in yoga group there was significant improvements in bowel movements and depression scores when compared to group B .Additionally, the yoga group had a notable improvement in quality of life and also saw reductions in medication dependence.

Conclusions As per our findings, 3 month yoga practice is a useful and non-invasive treatment for IBS severity. Our research also points to the necessity of more yogic sessions that directly help all patients.

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15. April 2024