NCT03519698

Footbaths With Ginger, Mustard & Warm Water Only in Female Adolescents With & Without Anorexia Nervosa

Efficacy of Footbaths With Ginger, Mustard & Warm Water Only on Psychophysiological Parameters in Female Adolescents With & Without Anorexia Nervosa - a Randomized, Controlled, Three-arm Study With Cross-over Design

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 41 (actual)
• Sponsor: ARCIM Institute Academic Research in Complementary and Integrative Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 12 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A randomized, controlled, three-arm study to investigate the effects of footbaths with ginger, mustard or warm water alone in female, adolescent patients with Anorexia nervosa and in healthy, female adolescents on psychophysiological parameters.

Detailed description

In a cross-over study design, the subjects (21 female patients with Anorexia nervosa, 20 healthy, female controls) receive footbaths with either ginger, mustard or warm water alone in a randomized order with a wash-out period of at least 1-3 days. The effects of each intervention on the objective warmth generation are measured by infrared thermography, whereas the subjective warmth perception is determined by the 'Herdecke warmth perception questionnaire'. All parameters are determined at specified times (t1 = right before, t2 = right after and t3 = 10 minutes following the footbath), which enables an evaluation based on pre-post-comparisons. The statistical analysis comprises analyses of variances based on linear mixed effects models (after checking for carry-over effects).

Conditions

• Anorexia Nervosa

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Warm water	Footbaths were prepared with 12 liters of warm water (40 °C)
OTHER	Mustard	12 l footbath with warm water (40 °C) and 80 g mustard flour (Sinapis nigrea semen plv.)
OTHER	Ginger	12 l footbath with warm water (40 °C) and 80 g ginger flour (Zingiberis rhizoma plv.)

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-12-15
• Primary completion: 2017-06-22
• Completion: 2017-06-22
• First posted: 2018-05-09
• Last updated: 2018-05-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany