ArticleJournal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)2013
Tension Tamer: delivering meditation with objective heart rate acquisition for adherence monitoring using a smart phone platform.
Article in Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.), 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- A mHealth app for sarcoidosis-associated fatigue: a feasibility randomized control trial.Respiratory medicine · 2025Trial
- Effects of Hatha yoga on blood pressure, salivary α-amylase, and cortisol function among normotensive and prehypertensive youth.Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 2014Trial
- Design and rationale of a pilot randomized clinical trial investigating the use of a mHealth app for sarcoidosis-associated fatigue.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2023Article
- Ethnicity Differences in Sleep Changes Among Prehypertensive Adults Using a Smartphone Meditation App: Dose-Response Trial.JMIR formative research · 2020Article
- The Current State of Mobile Phone Apps for Monitoring Heart Rate, Heart Rate Variability, and Atrial Fibrillation: Narrative Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2019Review
- Increasing exposure to complementary and alternative medicine treatment options through the design of a social media tool.Health systems (Basingstoke, England) · 2019Review
- "The Smartphone's Guide to the Galaxy": In Situ Analysis in Space.Biosensors · 2018Review
- Meditation smartphone application effects on prehypertensive adults' blood pressure: Dose-response feasibility trial.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2018Article
- Mobile devices for the remote acquisition of physiological and behavioral biomarkers in psychiatric clinical research.Journal of psychiatric research · 2017Review
- Formative evaluation on cultural tailoring breathing awareness meditation smartphone apps to reduce stress and blood pressure.mHealth · 2017Article
- Improving the Sensitivity and Functionality of Mobile Webcam-Based Fluorescence Detectors for Point-of-Care Diagnostics in Global Health.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2016Review
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Abstract
objectivesThis brief report demonstrates the proof of concept of the Tension Tamer (TT) smartphone application, which integrates photoplethysmograph capabilities with breathing awareness meditation (BAM), to reduce stress and measure heart rate and adherence.
designMethods for objectively measuring heart rate and adherence to BAM were developed as part of a future randomized controlled trial. SETTING/LOCATION: The study was conducted at Jerry Zucker Middle School of Science and the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston. SUBJECTS: The subjects were three prehypertensive male teachers.
interventionThe method used was smartphone delivered BAM. OUTCOME MEASURES: Objective measures included heart rate, adherence, and ambulatory blood pressure (BP).
resultsAdherence data was successfully collected by the TT application. Increased adherence to TT coincided with increased improvements in ambulatory BP over a 3-month period.
conclusionsTT shows promise as a simple inexpensive program for administering BAM and capturing adherence data in future clinical trials.
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