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Treatment Trial of Thermoregulatory Disturbances in Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa Patients With Either Ginger Powder Footbaths or Warm Water Footbaths

NCT03886207 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 24

Last updated 2020-07-21

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

A study to explore whether warm water footbaths with added ginger powder can improve thermoregulatory processes in adolescent anorexia nervosa patients and provide them with an increase in subjective feeling of warmth. The participants will receive a warm footbath four times a week for six weeks with a physiological and psychological testing point once before the beginning of the six-week footbath period and once after.

Conditions

  • Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa

Interventions

OTHER

ginger powder footbath

38-40° C warm water footbath with an additive of dried ginger powder reaching up to mid-calf level, as practiced in anthroposophic medicine

OTHER

warm water only footbath

38-40° C warm water footbath without any additive reaching up to mid-calf level

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Filderklinik, Filderstadt, Germany

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • ARCIM Institute Academic Research in Complementary and Integrative Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jan Vagedes, Dr. med. · ARCIM Institute

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
8 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-04-08
Primary Completion
2020-02-26
Completion
2020-02-27

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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