A Home-based Intervention to Promote Mindful Breathing Awareness Through Pursed-lip Breathing Training for COPD Patients

Mayo Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Emphysema; COPD

Treatments: Behavioral: mindful breathing application; Device: application on a computer tablet

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03814980

17-004445

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this study, a system will be developed to guide patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to complete a mindful breathing practice at home. COPD is the third leading cause of death in the United States and no cure exists. Shortness of breath is the most common disabling symptom. Pursed lips breathing is a type of breathing practice that has demonstrated effectiveness for patients with COPD. It requires practice to maintain and there is currently no home system to provide the needed feedback and support to maintain PLB. Additionally, syncing breathing and heart rate variation offers patients additional benefits. The proposed project explores the use of biofeedback to guide COPD patients in a breathing practice and to provide data for health coaching to monitor and support the practice.

Enrollment: 6 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Patients eligible for Pulmonary Rehabilitation will be recruited for this study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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6 participants in 1 patient group

Pilot Study

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will be shown how to use a mindful breathing software application. The software will be used for 1 week. At the end of the week, participants will evaluate the software.

Treatment:

Behavioral: mindful breathing application

Device: application on a computer tablet