ReviewJournal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)2018
Current Evidence on Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback as a Complementary Anticraving Intervention.
Review in Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06821035 (Teaching Youth & Families Self-Regulation Skills to Disrupt the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences), which is not on this map. Cited by 12 papers.
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Teaching Youth & Families Self-Regulation Skills to Disrupt the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences: Preventing Substance Use in Adversity- Impacted Youth
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effects of arousal modulation via resonance breathing on craving and affect in women with substance use disorder.Addictive behaviors · 2022Trial
- Sports Performance and Breathing Rate: What Is the Connection? A Narrative Review on Breathing Strategies.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- An ideographic study into physiology, alcohol craving and lapses during one hundred days of daily life monitoring.Addictive behaviors reports · 2022Article
- Use and perceived usefulness of a just-in-time resonance breathing intervention adjunct for substance use disorder: Contextual and physiological predictors.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Closing the brain-heart loop: Towards more holistic models of addiction and addiction recovery.Addiction biology · 2022Review
- SUBSTANCE USE AND ADDICTION AFFECT MORE THAN THE BRAIN: THE PROMISE OF NEUROCARDIAC INTERVENTIONS.Current addiction reports · 2021Article
- Getting to the heart of food craving with resting heart rate variability in adolescents.Appetite · 2020Article
- Improvement in women's cardiovascular functioning during cognitive-behavioral therapy for alcohol use disorder.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2019Observational
- Theoretical implications and clinical support for heart rate variability biofeedback for substance use disorders.Current opinion in psychology · 2019Review
- Substance craving changes in university students receiving heart rate variability biofeedback: A longitudinal multilevel modeling approach.Addictive behaviors · 2019Article
- A Critical Examination of the Practical Implications Derived from the Food Addiction Concept.Current obesity reports · 2019Review
- Resonance-Paced Breathing Alters Neural Response to Visual Cues: Proof-of-Concept for a Neuroscience-Informed Adjunct to Addiction Treatments.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe limited success of conventional anticraving interventions encourages research into new treatment strategies. Heart rate variability biofeedback (HRVB), which is based on slowed breathing, was shown to improve symptom severity in various disorders. HRVB, and certain rates of controlled breathing (CB), may offer therapeutic potential as a complementary drug-free treatment option to help control substance craving.
methodsThis review evaluated current evidence on the effectiveness of HRVB and CB training as a complementary anticraving intervention, based on guidelines from the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols. Studies that assessed a cardiorespiratory feedback or CB intervention with substance craving as an outcome were selected. Effect sizes were calculated for each study. The Scale for Assessing Scientific Quality of Investigations in Complementary and Alternative Medicine was used to evaluate the quality of each study reviewed.
resultsA total of eight articles remained for final review, including controlled studies with or without randomization, as well as noncontrolled trials. Most studies showed positive results with a variety of methodological quality levels and effect size. Current HRVB studies rated moderately on methodological rigor and showed inconsistent magnitudes of calculated effect size (0.074-0.727) across populations. The largest effect size was found in a nonclinical college population of high food cravers utilizing the most intensive HRVB training time of 240 min.
conclusionsDespite the limitations of this review, there is beginning evidence that HRVB and CB training can be of significant therapeutic potential. Larger clinical trials are needed with methodological improvements such as longer treatment duration, adequate control conditions, measures of adherence and compliance, longitudinal examination of craving changes, and more comprehensive methods of craving measurement.
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