Elliptical Physical Activity and Sexual Dysfunction in Males With Irritable Bowel Syndrome
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An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: exercise (elliptical training).
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Erectile Dysfunction. Basic parameters: 30 years — 50 years · Male.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Egypt
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
psychological disturbances resulting from irritable bowel syndrome causes sexual dysfunction in men such as weak erection of penis. The different exercise forms are important in improving symptoms of this syndrome and exercise also may improve sexual dysfunction in men
Detailed description
Forty irritable bowel syndrome men with sexual dysfunction ( weak erection of penis or erectile dysfunction) will divided into Group I or Group II . The group will contain twenty subjects. Group I will perform ellpitical physical activity (40 minutes on elliptical trainer three times weekly. the duration of physical activity will be 12 weeks. Group II will not perform any physical activity.
Interventions
- Behavioral exercise (elliptical training)
twenty irritable bowel syndrome men with sexual dysfunction ( weak erection of penis or erectile dysfunction) will perform ellpitical physical activity (40 minutes on elliptical trainer three times weekly. the duration of physical activity will be 12 weeks.
Primary outcome measures
- international index of erectile fucntion [Time frame: it will be assessed after 12 weeks]
Secondary outcome measures (4)
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome Severity Scoring System [Time frame: it will be assessed after 12 weeks]
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome Quality of Life Questionnaire [Time frame: it will be assessed after 12 weeks]
- State Anxiety Inventory [Time frame: it will be assessed after 12 weeks]
- Beck depression inventory [Time frame: it will be assessed after 12 weeks]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- men with irritable bowel syndrome
- men with erectile dysfunction
- married men
Exclusion criteria
- obese men
- chest/renal disease men
- cardiac/metabolic disease men
- systemic disease men
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
Egypt · 1 center
- faculty of physical therapy Cairo university — Dokki
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06783894 · IRB00014233-20