NCT06656741

Neurological Evidence of Diverse Self-Help Breathing Trainings with Virtual Reality and Bio-Feedback Assistance

Completed NA Last updated 24 October 2024

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Resting State in Breath Training Styles in 53 participants. Completed in 31 March 2022.

Timeline

11 May 2021

Primary endpoint
31 March 2022

31 March 2022

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Hei-Yin Hydra Ng
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	na
Design	single group
Masking	none
Primary purpose	basic science
Enrollment	53
Start date	11 May 2021
Primary completion	31 March 2022
Estimated completion	31 March 2022
Sites	1 location across Taiwan

Drugs / interventions tested

• Resting State
• Mindful Breathing
• Guided Breathing
• Breath Counting

Conditions studied

• Breath Training Styles — all drugs for Breath Training Styles →

Sponsor

Hei-Yin Hydra Ng

Who can join

Adults 20 to 80, any sex, with Breath Training Styles. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The goal of this research is to learn about the neuro-mechanism beneath breath training, mindfulness meditation, or periods of idleness. This research also focuses on the use of virtual reality (VR) and bio-feedback (BF) integrated assistance system in breath training, and seeks for the potential of generalizing breath training in public.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

Whether and how people's neuro-mechanism (indicated by EEG indexes) changes when they are performing different breath training techniques (i.e., mindful breathing, guided breathing, and breath counting).

Researchers will compare the neuro-markers when participants perform different styles of breath training.

Participants will:

* Participants will equip an EEG system, a VR headset, a respiratory belt, and a heartbeat sensor.
* Participants will perform resting state task, mindful breathing task, guided breath task, and breath counting task respectively.
* EEG activity, breath rate, reaction time, accuracy, and HRV will be recorded. Each session will last approximately two hours.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Neurological Evidence of Diverse Self-Help Breathing Training With Virtual Reality and Biofeedback Assistance: Extensive Exploration Study of Electroencephalography Markers.
   Ng HH, Wu CW, Hsu HC, Huang CM, et al · · 2024 · cited 3× · PMID 39642375 · DOI 10.2196/55478