Effects of Yoga on constipation resulted from atypical antipsychotics

VernacularTitle:瑜伽治疗非典型抗精神病药所致便秘的效果
Author: Shu-De CHEN ¹ ; Hong CUI ; Xia-Jun HE ; Li-Mei MO ; Cai-Feng XU
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1. 广东省医学科学院广东省人民医院
Keywords: Yoga; Psychotropic drugs; Constipation; Treatment outcome
From: Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing 2012;18(9):1031-1033
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To study the effects of Yoga on constipation resulted from atypical antipsychotics.Methods Total of 63 patients took the atypical antipsychotics and had constipation for three days.They were randomly divided into treatment group( n =32) who received Yoga exercise and control group (n =31 ) who received stiparolytic drugs treatment.Then,the efficacy and adverse reactions in the two groups were observed and compared.Results Total of 30 cases in the treatment group had effective therapy and the effective rate was 93.75％,and that in the control group was 93.55％,and the difference was not statistically significant(x2 =0.0000,P =1.000). There were no cases with abdominal pain,diarrhoea and withdraw recurrence in the treatment group,and compared with those of the control group, the differences were statistically significant (x2 =19.498,7.275,37.394,respectively;P ＜0.05 ).Conclusions Yoga exercise is an effective method for the constipation resulted from atypical antipsychotics with no adverse reaction.