Abdominal Breathing Training on Reducing Anxiety

National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anxiety

Treatments: Other: abdominal breathing training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04704765

20200105R

Details and patient eligibility

About

The research purpose is to investigate the effectiveness of abdominal breathing training on reducing anxiety. This study is an experimental research design. Using a randomized controlled trial approach. The patients receiving the intervention of abdominal breathing training were in the experimental group, while those who did not receive it were in the control group.

Full description

The aim of the study is to investigate the effectiveness of the abdominal breathing training on reducing anxiety. Using an experimental randomized controlled trial approach. The experimental group receiving abdominal breathing training, and control group without training. The effectiveness assessment used the Beck anxiety inventory, required to be completed by both the experimental group and control group. This study performed the pre-and-post assessments. This study performed the pre-test before the implementation of abdominal breathing training, and performed the post-test at Week 4 and Week 8 the end of abdominal breathing training. During this period, they received the abdominal breathing training at the outpatient clinic (every day 30 minutes, can include every time during the day). When the subjects were at home, they received self-training using the abdominal breathing training video (once every day and 30 minutes every time).

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Who are over 20 years old.
2. The score of Beck anxiety inventory at lease of 8.
3. Agree to participate in the study and have filled out a written consent form.

Exclusion criteria

1. Inpatients.
2. COPD patients.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

The effectiveness of receiving abdominal breathing training

Experimental group

Description:

The patients receiving the intervention of abdominal breathing training were in the experimental group. The experimental group received the abdominal breathing training for a total of 8 weeks. During this period, they received the abdominal breathing training at the outpatient clinic (every day 30 minutes, can include every time during the day). When the subjects were at home, they received self-training using the abdominal breathing training video (once every day and 30 minutes every time). The control group without training.

Treatment:

Other: abdominal breathing training

The effectiveness of not receiving abdominal breathing training

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group who did not receive abdominal breathing training. The effectiveness assessment used the Beck anxiety inventory and physiological index (heart beats, breath and blood pressure), required to be completed by the control group.