Trial reportJournal of behavioral medicine2022
A feasibility trial of a digital mindfulness-based intervention to improve asthma-related quality of life for primary care patients with asthma.
Trial report in Journal of behavioral medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- Piloting co-developed behaviour change interventions to reduce exposure to air pollution and improve self-reported asthma-related health.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2025Trial
- Resting state functional connectivity changes following mindfulness-based stress reduction predict improvements in disease control for patients with asthma.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2024Trial
- App-Based Mindfulness for Attenuation of Subjective and Physiological Stress Reactivity in a Population With Elevated Stress: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2023Trial
- Current perspectives on the psychological stress-immune axis in asthma: Pathophysiology, interventions, and significance for patient care.The World Allergy Organization journal · 2026Review
- Psychological Intervention Strategies in Adolescents with Asthma: A Review of the Literature.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Asthma: Biomedical and Psychobiological Perspectives.Biopsychosocial science and medicine · 2025Review
- The influence of digital cognitive behavioral therapy treatment for perioperative sleep disorders in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2025Article
- Association between higher morning preference and better health-related quality of life in asthma.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. Global · 2025Article
- The impact of mindfulness apps on psychological processes of change: a systematic review.Npj mental health research · 2024Review
- Sex and gender reporting in RCTs of internet and mobile-based interventions for depression and anxiety in chronic conditions: A secondary analysis of a systematic review.PLOS mental health · 2024Article
- Mind-body internet and mobile-based interventions for depression and anxiety in adults with chronic physical conditions: A systematic review of RCTs.PLOS digital health · 2024Article
- Quality of life and its association with predictors in lung transplant recipients: a latent profile analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Exiting the Anthropocene: Achieving personal and planetary health in the 21st century.Allergy · 2022Review
- Clinically relevant effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in individuals with asthma.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2022Article
- Experiences of exercise in patients with asthma: a qualitative analysis of discussions in a UK asthma online community.BJGP open · 2022Article
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Abstract
Asthma outcomes remain suboptimal, despite effective pharmacotherapy. Psychological dysfunction (such as anxiety) is common, and associated with poorer outcomes. We evaluated a digital mindfulness programme as an intervention to improve asthma-related quality of life for primary care patients, in a prospectively registered randomized-controlled feasibility study. We offered 'Headspace', a widely-used digital mindfulness intervention, to adults with asthma through 16 UK GP practices. Participants were randomized on a 2:1 basis to the mindfulness intervention, or waitlist control. Participants completed questionnaires (including asthma symptom control, asthma-related quality of life, anxiety, depression) at baseline, 6-week and 3-month follow-up. 116 participants completed primary outcomes at 3-month follow-up: intervention 73 (79%), control 43 (84%). Compared to baseline, the intervention group but not the control group reported significantly improved asthma-related quality of life, with a between-group difference favoring the intervention group that was not significant (Mean difference = 0.15, 95%CI - 0.13 to 0.42). Intervention use varied (ranging from 0 to 192 times) but was generally high. Digital mindfulness interventions are feasible and acceptable adjunct treatments for mild and moderate asthma to target quality of life. Further research should adapt 'generic' mindfulness-based stress-reduction to maximize effectiveness for asthma, and validate our findings in a fully-powered randomized controlled trial.Trial registration Prospectively registered: ISRCTN52212323.
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