NCT05969678

Respiratory Training Intervention

Effects of Respiratory Training Intervention on Lung Capacity and Quality of Life of Community Elderly

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 128 (actual)
• Sponsor: Chung Shan Medical University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Elders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	breathing training	receive the breathing training of abdominal diaphragmatic breathing method combined with incentive spiromete

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-08-01
• Primary completion: 2023-08-10
• Completion: 2023-12-08
• First posted: 2023-08-01
• Last updated: 2025-06-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan