Efficacy of the Combination of Mindfulness and Buteyko Techniques for the Improvement of Poorly Controlled Asthma.

Fundació Institut de Recerca de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Asthma; Anxiety; Stress

Treatments: Other: Mindfulness and Buteyko techniques

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05593315

IIBSP-MBA-2022-95

Details and patient eligibility

About

Administration of a combined program for general (Mindfulness) and respiratory (Buteyko technique) relationship in patients with poorly controlled asthma and anxiety/stress to determine if it provides an improvement in current control and future risk of asthma.

Full description

A Mindfulness relaxation program and a Buteyko technique respiratory rehabilitation program will be administered individually and weekly, in 10 sessions (5 face-to-face and 5 telematic sessions afterwards). Patients will be visited 4 times (at inclusion, one month, 6 months and 12 months after the double intervention), where data on asthmatic morbidity, pulmonary function (spirometry), bronchial inflammation (FENO) will be collected and some questionnaires will be administered.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of poorly controlled asthma
• In treatment with a combination of ICS/LABA at medium doses
• Anxiety and/or functional dyspnea
• Attended in the outpatient consultations of the Asthma Unit of the Pneumology and Allergy Service of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona

Exclusion criteria

• Severe asthma exacerbation in the last 30 days
• Severe disabling comorbidity
• Severe psychiatric illness
• Inability to complete questionnaires.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 1 patient group

Mindfulness and Buteyko techniques

Other group

Description:

A Mindfulness relaxation program and a Buteyko technique respiratory rehabilitation program will be administered individually and weekly, in 10 sessions (5 face-to-face and 5 telematic sessions afterwards).

Treatment:

Other: Mindfulness and Buteyko techniques