Trial reportScientific reports2020
The Effects of Presleep Slow Breathing and Music Listening on Polysomnographic Sleep Measures - a pilot trial.
Trial report in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07495423 (Exploring the Efficacy of a Breathing Training Intervention in Patients With Emotionally Regulated Sleep Disorders), which is not on this map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Exploring the Efficacy of a Breathing Training Intervention in Patients With Emotionally Regulated Sleep Disorders
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 36 citations in OpenAlex.
- Auditory Biofeedback through Wind Instrument Training: A Breath-Controlled Acoustic Strategy for Modulating Anxiety and Sleep.Noise & healthPooled it
- Effects of motivational music on sleep quality for caregivers of patients with advanced cancer: a randomized controlled trial.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Trial
- Evaluation of Autonomic Nervous System Function During Sleep by Mindful Breathing Using a Tablet Device: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR nursing · 2024Trial
- Personalized Machine Learning Intervention to Improve Sleep Quality Using Wearable Technology in Healthy Middle-Aged Adults From Mexico City: Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Cognitive Interventions for the Treatment of Insomnia or Poor-Quality Sleep in Community-Dwelling Older People: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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- Meta-narrative review: the impact of music therapy on sleep and future research directions.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Review
- Biofeedback and Digitalized Motivational Interviewing to Increase Daily Physical Activity: Series of Factorial N-of-1 Randomized Controlled Trials Piloting the Precious App.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- Deep breathing exercise at work: Potential applications and impact.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- A novel music-based therapeutic approach: the Therapeutic Music Listening.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Gene-environment interaction between circadian clock gene polymorphisms and job stress on the risk of sleep disturbances.Psychopharmacology · 2022Article
- Sleep Well and Recover Faster with Less Pain-A Narrative Review on Sleep in the Perioperative Period.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
- Heart Rate Variability and Firstbeat Method for Detecting Sleep Stages in Healthy Young Adults: Feasibility Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2021Article
- Updated Review of the Acoustic Modulation of Sleep: Current Perspectives and Emerging Concepts.Nature and science of sleep · 2021Review
- Sleep Quality and Electroencephalogram Delta Power.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Knowledge on efficient ways to reduce presleep arousal and, therefore, improve sleep, is scanty. We explored the effects of presleep slow breathing and music listening conditions on sleep quality and EEG power spectral density in young adults in a randomized, controlled trial with a crossover design. Participants' (N = 20, 50% females) sleep was measured on two consecutive nights with polysomnography (40 nights), the other night serving as the control condition. The intervention condition was either a 30-minute slow breathing exercise or music listening (music by Max Richter: Sleep). The intervention and control conditions were placed in a random order. We measured heart rate variability prior to, during and after the intervention condition, and found that both interventions increased immediate heart rate variability. Music listening resulted in decreased N2 sleep, increased frontal beta1 power spectral density, and a trend towards increased N3 sleep was detected. In the slow breathing condition higher central delta power during N3 was observed. While some indices pointed to improved sleep quality in both intervention groups, neither condition had robust effects on sleep quality. These explorative findings warrant further replication in different populations.
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