Effects of Breathing Exercises on Reaction Time

Bandırma Onyedi Eylül University31 enrolled

Overview

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

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. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

DOUBLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Breathing, Mouth

Interventions

breathing exercisesOTHER

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.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 30 YearsHealthy volunteers:

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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...)

Locations (1)

BandırmaOnyediEylulU

Balıkesir, Turkey (Türkiye)

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

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.

Time frame: 4weeks

Upper extremity reaction test

Upper extremity reaction test: It is planned to use a validated BlazePod sensor for upper extremity reaction time test

Time frame: 4weeks

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.

Time frame: 4weeks

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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