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

Minnesota HealthSolutions

Status

Completed

Conditions

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Treatments

Behavioral: Mindful Breathing

Behavioral: Home-Based Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Industry

Identifiers

NCT05349123

Mindful Breathing Awareness

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Mindful Breathing Laboratory under the direction of Dr. Benzo will complete a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the mindful breathing module. This rigorous study will evaluate home-based PR system compared to the home-based PR system plus mindful breathing module for its effects on breathlessness and emotions. The investigators hypothesize that the intervention will decrease breathlessness while increasing emotional perception, emotional intelligence, and mindfulness.

Full description

A total of 50 adults diagnosed with COPD will be enrolled in this study. Half of the subjects will be randomized to receive home-based pulmonary rehabilitation with the mindful breathing module (intervention group) and half will receive home-based pulmonary rehabilitation (control group). Each subject will be consented and trained and then participate in either the intervention or control group. Both groups entail one week of baseline and twelve weeks of home-based pulmonary rehabilitation (health coaching plus activity monitoring). The intervention group will also receive the mindful breathing module during the twelve weeks of home-based pulmonary rehabilitation. The Chronic Respiratory Disease Questionnaire (CRQ) will be administered at baseline, week 12 (after the intervention) and week 24 as the investigators will follow the patients for 3 months after the intervention to document the sustainability of the effects (behavior change).

Enrollment

99 patients

Sex

All

Ages

40+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients must be ≥40 years old
Patients must have a diagnosis COPD documented by pulmonary function testing; breathlessness of score 2 or higher by the Medical Research Council Score
Patients must be a current or previous smoker with at least 10 pack-years of cigarette smoking

Exclusion criteria

Patients with a high likelihood of being lost to follow-up or contact (patients with active chemical dependency), are planning to move out of the state; or are not living in the healthcare area
Patients with an inability to provide good data or follow commands (patients who are disoriented, have a severe neurologic or psychiatric condition)
Patients with an inability to do mild exercise (patients who have orthopedic-neurologic problems; patients who have severe heart failure, characterized by an ejection fraction of <20% or by New York Heart Association Class IV disease; patients who should be at complete rest, confined to a bed or chair; or patients in whom any physical activity brings on discomfort and in whom symptoms occur at rest).