Biofeedback Training to Increase P co2 in Asthma With Elevated Anxiety: A One-Stop Treatment of Both Conditions?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Anxiety is highly prevalent in individuals with asthma. Asthma symptoms and medication can exacerbate anxiety, and vice versa. Unfortunately, treatments of comorbid anxiety and asthma are largely lacking. A problematic feature common to both conditions is hyperventilation. It adversely affects lung function and symptoms in asthma and anxiety. We examined whether a treatment to reduce hyperventilation, shown to improve asthma symptoms, also improves anxiety in asthma patients with high anxiety.

Method

One hundred twenty English- or Spanish-speaking adult patients with asthma were randomly assigned to either Capnometry-Assisted Respiratory Training (CART) to raise P co2 or feedback to slow respiratory rate (SLOW). Although anxiety was not an inclusion criterion, 21.7

SUBMITTER: Meuret AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10238676 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature