Status:
COMPLETED
Breathing Training for Asthma
Lead Sponsor:
Southern Methodist University
Collaborating Sponsors:
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Baylor Health Care System
Conditions:
ASTHMA
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-65 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
For the proposed randomized controlled treatment study, the investigators plan to compare the effects of this hypoventilation-based breathing training with a control intervention that will focus on br...
Detailed Description
For this randomized controlled treatment study, the investigators plan to compare the effects of hypoventilation-based breathing training with a control intervention that will focus on breathing regul...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Men or women between 18 and 65 years of age
- Understand and read english adequately
- A previously documented history of asthma from intermittent to severe (symptoms plus objective documentation of at least partially reversible airflow obstruction)
- Willing to undergo a 5-session course of breathing training
- Current asthma symptoms
Exclusion
- Clinically significant heart disease
- Clinically significant cerebrovascular disease
- Clinically significant thyroid dysfunction
- Out-of-control diabetes
- Use of oral corticosteroids in the last 3 months
- Active smokers or more than 10 pack years
- Clinically significant chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Clinically significant emphysema
- Current alcohol and substance dependence
- Psychotic disorders and high risk for personality disorders
- Having received previous breathing training exercises for asthma
- Not willing to abstain from taking the morning dose of their long-term bronchodilator or leukotriene inhibitors or from using their short-acting beta-2 adrenergic agonists or anticholinergic bronchodilators for 8 hours before the pre-treatment, post-treatment, 1-month follow-up, and 6-month follow-up assessments (Medication withdrawal will be discouraged if patients should experience significant symptoms before the assessments. They will be offered to reschedule the appointment without any consequences for their enrollment in the study.)
- Night shift workers
- Tuberculosis
- Pregnant, plan on becoming pregnant, or nursing during the course of the study
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
July 1 2008
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
July 1 2013
Estimated Enrollment :
120 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00975273
Start Date
July 1 2008
End Date
July 1 2013
Last Update
June 4 2018
Active Locations (2)
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1
Baylor University Medical Center (BUMC)
Dallas, Texas, United States, 75204
2
Southern Methodist University (SMU)
Dallas, Texas, United States, 75275