Rabiei Samira
Department of Nutrition Research, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute and Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Int J Prev Med. 2025 Jul 30;16:43. doi: 10.4103/ijpvm.ijpvm_312_24. eCollection 2025.
The high prevalence of depression, stress, and anxiety imposes a high cost on society. Recently, intermittent fasting (IF) has attracted a great deal of attention regarding the improvement in physical and psychological health. Due to insufficient information in this field, our study will review systematically the effect of different types of IF including religious and nonreligious fasting on mental health. We will search MEDLINE/PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science for papers published from the inception until the end of September 2024. All clinical trial studies that report the effect of intervention through intermittent fasting on mood disorders, stress, depression, and anxiety, in all countries, with their full text available in the English and Persian languages, will be included. Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool for Randomized Controlled Trials will be used to evaluate the quality of evidence in the domains of random sequence generation, allocation concealment, selective reporting, other bias, blinding of participants and personnel, blinding of outcome assessment, and incomplete outcome data. We will conduct the study in accordance with the guideline of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-analyses Protocols. Our systematic review will clarify the answer of some important questions like "Does fasting interventions have any effectiveness on stress, anxiety and depression"? and "Are there differences between the effects of Ramadan fasting and other types of fasting on mental health"? It is hoped that the results can provide a new treatment for the most prevalent mental disorders.
抑郁症、压力和焦虑的高患病率给社会带来了高昂代价。最近，间歇性禁食（IF）在改善身心健康方面引起了广泛关注。鉴于该领域信息不足，我们的研究将系统回顾不同类型的间歇性禁食（包括宗教禁食和非宗教禁食）对心理健康的影响。我们将在MEDLINE/PubMed、Scopus和科学网中检索从创刊至2024年9月底发表的论文。所有报告间歇性禁食干预对情绪障碍、压力、抑郁和焦虑影响的临床试验研究，无论在哪个国家，只要其全文有英文和波斯文版本，都将被纳入。将使用Cochrane随机对照试验偏倚风险工具来评估随机序列生成、分配隐藏、选择性报告、其他偏倚、参与者和人员的盲法、结果评估的盲法以及不完整结果数据等领域的证据质量。我们将按照系统评价和Meta分析方案的首选报告项目指南进行这项研究。我们的系统评价将阐明一些重要问题的答案，如“禁食干预对压力、焦虑和抑郁是否有任何效果？”以及“斋月禁食和其他类型禁食对心理健康的影响是否存在差异？ ”希望研究结果能够为最常见的精神障碍提供一种新的治疗方法。
