Effects of Breathing Exercises on Reaction Time

Breathing, Mouth Clinical Trial

Official title:

Short And Long Term Effects Of Breathing Exercises on Reaction Time: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05744765
• Other study ID #: Bandirma Onyedi EylulU
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 20, 2022
• Est. completion date: September 20, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: October 2023
• Source: Bandirma Onyedi Eylül University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The aim of the study was to investigate the short and long-term effects of breathing exercises on reaction time.

Description:

A total of 40 participants who volunteered to participate in the study from the students of the Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health Sciences, Bandırma Onyedi Eylül University will be included in the study. Participants will be randomly divided into two groups using a simple random numbers table. The study group (15 people) will be given respiratory exercises (12 sessions). The control group (15 people) will receive no intervention. In the study, after the demographic characteristics of the participants are obtained, reaction time will be evaluated with auditory and visual reaction tests and upper extremity reaction tests. All evaluations are planned to take a total of 15 minutes.

The same assessments will be performed in both groups. To measure the long-term effect, after the initial evaluations are completed, the study group will be given a total of 12 sessions of breathing exercises for 4 weeks (3 days a week). After 4 weeks, both groups will be evaluated again. To measure the short-term effect, the respiratory exercise program will be started after the 1st evaluation in the study group, and the 2nd evaluation will be made after the first session.

Canan Demir will perform breathing exercises, and the other researchers who will evaluate will not know which group the participants are in. In this way, the study will be single-blinded.

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Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 31
• Est. completion date: September 20, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: August 20, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 30 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Volunteering to participate in the study

• To be between the ages of 18-30

• Not having any problems that prevent breathing exercises

Exclusion Criteria:

• Acute infection or chronic disease of neurological, psychiatric, orthopedic, cardiological, rheumatological, etc. origin

• Having had any injury and/or operation (trauma, surgery, fracture, etc.) in the last 6 months

• Regular medication use

• Presence of respiratory disease (asthma, COPD, etc...)

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Breathing, Mouth
• Mouth Breathing
• Respiratory Aspiration

Intervention

Other:
• breathing exercises
After the initial 5 minutes of relaxed breathing, the participants will perform diaphragmatic and costal breathing for 10 minutes. .5 diaphragmatic breathing will be done in 1 minute.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	BandirmaOnyediEylulU	Balikesir

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Bandirma Onyedi Eylül University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Finger reaction test	By placing the dominant hand index finger on the left button of a computer mouse, the participant will be asked to press the left button as soon as the traffic light pattern glows green on the screen.	4weeks
Primary	Upper extremity reaction test	Upper extremity reaction test: It is planned to use a validated BlazePod sensor for upper extremity reaction time test	4weeks
Primary	Auditory Reaction Test	Auditory reaction time will be assessed with the playback.fm (https://playback.fm/audio-reaksiyon-time) test. Subjects will be asked to press the 'space bar' key each time they hear a sound. After five applications, data will be taken from the output page and the average reaction time will be calculated.	4weeks