TY - JOUR ID - 6075 TI - Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Therapeutic Fasting Among Naturopathy Physicians: Across Sectional National Survey JO - Journal of Nutrition,Fasting and Health JA - JNFH LA - en SN - AU - Nair, Pradeep MK AU - Mohanty, Sriloy AU - R, Jainraj AD - Department of Intramural Research, National Institute of Naturopathy, Pune, Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India AD - Junior Resident, S-VYASA University, Bangalore,India AD - Assistant Professor, SRK Medical College of Naturopathy & Yogic Science, Tamilnadu, India. Y1 - 2015 PY - 2015 VL - 3 IS - 4 SP - 177 EP - 182 KW - fasting KW - Naturopathy KW - BNYS KW - Calorie restriction KW - Diet therapy DO - 10.22038/jfh.2015.6075 N2 - Introduction: Fasting is a common ingredient of naturopathic prescription in India. However no studies have been conducted to establish the use, approach of naturopathy physicians towards fasting. The present study, a cross sectional survey was conducted to assess the attitude, use, belief and understanding about therapeutic fasting among the naturopathy physicians in India. Methods: A 12 item e-mail based questionnaire was sent among 334 naturopathy physicians, which were designed to obtain demographic data, practice characteristics and multiple choice and multiple response close-ended questions along with an open-response final question. Survey questionnaire data was analyzed using descriptive statistics via frequency distribution and cross tabulations. Results: A convenient sample of total 257 participants was collected. Majority of the respondents were private practitioners with an average experience of 5 years. 50% of the total population confirms the use of fasting in their daily prescription which is mostly for 1-5 days (54%) and for all diseases (38.5%). Physicians mostly prescribe short term mono fasting with fruits or juices (42.8%) along with all other modalities (61.5%) to get desired effect. The end results of fasting therapy was quoted as satisfactory (51.7%) whereas the misconceptions of the patients was a challenge for 1/3 and  most of them find it easy to administer in adults (85%). Conclusion: Naturopathy physicians use fasting as a first line management in almost all chronic and acute diseases. However there is a need for strengthening the evidence based practice to bestow better care. UR - https://jnfh.mums.ac.ir/article_6075.html L1 - https://jnfh.mums.ac.ir/article_6075_ad4aadf2b6b4132121399d795044d076.pdf ER -