Respiratory Training Intervention

Chung Shan Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Elders

Treatments: Behavioral: breathing training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05969678

202304111RINC

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to examine the effect of abdominal diaphragmatic breathing combined with incentive spirometer breathing training on the lung capacity of elderly community residents.

Full description

The research will be conducted in a community in central Taiwan. Inclusion criteria are people over the age of 65 in the community. All participants will be randomly assigned to either the experimental group or the control group. The experimental group will receive the breathing training of abdominal diaphragmatic breathing method combined with incentive spiromete. The control group is only taught the breathing training of abdominal diaphragmatic breathing. Four assessment tools will be used, including the demographic questionnaire, respiratory capacity indicators, Modified Medical Research Council (mMRC) Dyspnea Scale, and the World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF Taiwan Version (WHOQOL-BREF; WHOQOL-BREF). Data analysis will be performed by independent sample t test, paired t test, and repeated measures analysis. All data analysis will be performed by SPSS version 22.0.

Enrollment: 128 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Over 65 years old
2. A person who is conscious and can communicate in Mandarin or Hokkien, and can cooperate with breathing exercises.
3. Agree to interview or fill out the questionnaire, and complete the consent form.

Exclusion criteria

1. Hemoptysis, pneumothorax, unstable cardiovascular status, chronic respiratory diseases (asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease).
2. Recent myocardial infarction or pulmonary embolism, thoracic aortic aneurysm, abdominal aortic aneurysm or cerebral aneurysm, recent eye surgery, nausea or vomiting, recent chest or abdominal surgery.
3. Suffering from infectious diseases: airborne such as: chickenpox, measles, tuberculosis, severe special infectious pneumonia influenza. Droplet transmission such as: pneumonia, influenza.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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128 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group ( breathing training with incentive spiromete)

Experimental group

Description:

The experimental group will receive the breathing training of abdominal diaphragmatic breathing method combined with incentive spiromete.

Treatment:

Behavioral: breathing training

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group is only taught the breathing training of abdominal diaphragmatic breathing.