Trial reportScientific reports2023
Effect of coherent breathing on mental health and wellbeing: a randomised placebo-controlled trial.
Trial report in Scientific reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05676658 (Effects of Coherent Breathing Breathwork on Mental Health and Wellbeing), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers.
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Effects of Coherent Breathing Breathwork on Mental Health and Wellbeing: A Randomised Placebo-controlled Study
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effect of the active cycle breathing technique on pain, anxiety and arterial blood oxygen saturation in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting.BMC anesthesiology · 2026Trial
- Breathing therapy for patients with medically unexplained physical symptoms and dysfunctional breathing: A pilot and feasibility trial.PloS one · 2025Trial
- Effects of brief remote high ventilation breathwork with retention on mental health and wellbeing: a randomised placebo-controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- Systematic Review of Randomised Controlled Trials Evaluating Box Breathing for Stress, Autonomic, and Clinical Outcomes.Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback · 2026Review
- Molecules, meaning, and physiology: disentangling the active ingredients of psychedelic therapeutics.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- An exploratory study of breathwork-induced altered states of consciousness in experienced practitioners: the airways to alteration (A2A) trial.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Neurophysiological mechanisms of breathing-based well-being practices: a narrative review for clinical application.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Everyone Breathes: a mixed methods evaluation of a combined Feldenkrais and vocal improvisation group within an adult mental health Recovery College setting.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
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- Breathwork for Chronic Stress and Mental Health: Does Choosing a Specific Technique Matter?Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Effectiveness of 2 Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions for Reducing Stress and Stabilizing Cardiac Autonomic Function: Microrandomized Trials.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Comparing the Effects of Square, 4-7-8, and 6 Breaths-per-Minute Breathing Conditions on Heart Rate Variability, COApplied psychophysiology and biofeedback · 2025Article
- Exploring Embodied and Bioenergetic Approaches in Trauma Therapy: Observing Somatic Experience and Olfactory Memory.Brain sciences · 2024Review
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Breathwork may offer simple tools for stress resilience. We conducted the largest parallel randomised-controlled trial on breathwork to date (NCT05676658) wherein 400 participants on the research platform Prolific were randomised, in blocks of 2 via remote software, to coherent breathing at ~ 5.5 breaths/min or a matched attention-placebo at 12 breaths/min, for ~ 10 min/day over 4 weeks. Participants were blinded to their allocated interventions, both of which were paced with equal inhalation:exhalation ratios. There were no differences on credibility and expectancy of benefit between conditions. At the primary timepoint post-intervention for the primary outcome subjective stress, there was no significant group by time interaction (F(1,377) = 0.089, p = 0.765, η
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