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Device-guided Breathing for Shortness of Breath in COPD

NCT01286181 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 11

Last updated 2013-04-04

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Although drug therapies and pulmonary rehabilitation have greatly improved COPD symptoms, as many as 50% of patients with severe COPD have inadequately controlled dyspnea. Device-guided breathing is a behavioral intervention that guides respiratory rates into a therapeutic range; prolongation of the expiratory phase improves hyperinflation, the most significant driver of dyspnea in this population. Device-guided breathing, has no known side-effects, and may represent a cost effective adjunctive treatment for dyspnea in severe COPD.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Twice daily practice of device-guided slow breathing.

Participants are asked to use the slow-breathing device for 20 minutes twice daily, for 8 weeks. Participants receive weekly telephone calls to monitor device use and are encouraged to use pursed-lips when following the breathing tones of the device while exhaling.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Roberto Benzo, MD · Mayo Clinic

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-01-31
Primary Completion
2011-12-31
Completion
2011-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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