Clinical trial NCT04704765: Abdominal Breathing Training on Reducing Anxiety
Official title: The Effectiveness of Abdominal Breathing Training on Reducing Anxiety
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Anxiety
Keywords: Abdominal Breathing Training, Anxiety, Effectiveness
Lead sponsor: National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-01-12
Enrollment: 60
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 20
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: 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.
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: 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.

Detailed 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).

Eligibility criteria: 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.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Beck anxiety inventory
timeFrame: pretest
measure: Beck anxiety inventory
timeFrame: post-test at Week 4
measure: Beck anxiety inventory
timeFrame: post-test at Week 8
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Taipei
country: Taiwan
facility: Xuan-Yi Huang
state: Peitou
Study officials:
affiliation: National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences
name: Xuan-Yi Huang, DNSc
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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