Effects of Deep Breathing Exercise on Pulmonary Function, Perceived Stress and Physical Fitness Among Healthy Smokers

NCT ID: NCT06032793

Last Updated: 2025-01-13

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 52 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-09-01
• Study Completion Date: 2023-12-01

Brief Summary

Effects of deep breathing exercise on pulmonary function, perceived stress and physical fitness among healthy smokers.

Detailed Description

Smoking is injurious to health as cigarette contains harmful substances that cause different life threatening diseases, like bronchitis, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cardiovascular diseases etc. During normal breathing, oxygen is supplied to the body through blood circulation. But, in smokers, carbon monoxide (CO) is supplied to body instead of oxygen, resulting in respiratory issues, like breathlessness and coughing, in acute stages . Smoking decreases lung capacity, as it contains acidic substances which start damaging the lining of the bronchi and bronchioles due to which they become inflamed and infected, resulting into coughing, shortness of breath and chest pain that leads towards chronic bronchitis. This study will contribute our young smokers as they are adherent to smoking and its difficult for them to quit smoking. as their physical activity is limited, individuals under stress condition and with pulmonary complications so impact of this research is that along with helping smokers to quit smoking also applying alternative strategies to minimize complication and improve quality of life. and these alternative strategies include such activities that performed easily at home and do not require much effort or no need to go to gym or any other place to perform these exercises.

Conditions

Cigarette Smoking

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Deep breathing exercise

This group will perform following exercises:

Pursed lip breathing, Diaphragmatic breathing and powered breathing for 3-4 times a day for 6 weeks.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Breathing exercises

Intervention Type: OTHER

Pursed lip breathing, Diaphragmatic breathing and powered breathing

No Intervention

This group will not perform any exercise.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Breathing exercises

Pursed lip breathing, Diaphragmatic breathing and powered breathing

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Only Male Healthy Smoker.
• Age: 20 - 30 years.
• Participants had a minimum smoking history of 5 years.
• Subject without any chronic pulmonary complication.

Exclusion Criteria

• Smokers with any pulmonary disease, acute infections, other systemic disease.
• Chest deformity or any disability.
• History of any surgery.
• Not willing to participate.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 20 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 30 Years
• Eligible Sex: MALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Riphah International University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Malik Muhammad Ali Awan, MSPT

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Riphah International University, Islamabad

Locations

Railway General Hospital

Rawalpindi, Punjab Province, Pakistan

Countries

Pakistan

Other Identifiers

REC/MS-PT/01656 Talliya Naz

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id