Clinical trial NCT05593315: Efficacy of the Combination of Mindfulness and Buteyko Techniques for the Improvement of Poorly Controlled Asthma.
Official title: Efficacy of the Combination of General Relaxation (Mindfulness) and Respiratory (Buteyko) Techniques for the Improvement of Poorly Controlled Asthma. The MBA Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Asthma
Anxiety
Stress
Keywords: Asthma
Anxiety
Stress
Mindfulness
Buteyko
Lead sponsor: Fundació Institut de Recerca de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-10-25
Enrollment: 40
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 80
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model 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).
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: 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.

Detailed 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.

Eligibility criteria: 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.

Primary outcomes:
measure: % patients with changed asthma control
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: Changes in asthma exacerbation
timeFrame: 1 year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Anxiety
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: Functional dyspnea
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: Pulmonary function
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: Bronchial inflammation
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: Therapeutic adherence of patients to inhalers
timeFrame: 1 year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Barcelona
country: Spain
facility: Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau. Carrer Mas Casanovas 90.
Study officials:
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