A pilot study of the acceptability and practicability of breathing training as a therapeutic measure for psychogenic seizures

Is breathing training control acceptable and practicable in patients with psychogenic seizures?

Status

Not yet recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12613001140741

Acronym

None

Enrollment

Registered

2013-10-11

Start date

2013-12-02

Completion date

2014-12-01

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

There is evidence that poor breathing control is implicated in triggering of psychogenic seizure. We hypothesize that improving breathing control will improve psychogenic seizures. We wish to carry out a preliminary uncontrolled trial in 20 patients to establish whether breathing control training is practicable and acceptable in patients with psychogenic seizures, and to have a preliminary estimate of efficacy to inform a power calculation. Patients will have two sessions of training, with exercises to do at home, within two months of recruitment. They will be reviewed clinically at 4 and 10 months. Acceptability of breathing control training and adverse experinces will be recorded only at 4 months.

Interventions

Breathing control training. 2 individual sessions of instruction by a respiratory physiotherapist, the first session of 60 minutes, the second session of 30 minutes one month later, with breathing exercises to carry at home, daily for 10 minutes for two months. Compliance will be recorded on seizure diaries.

Study design

Allocation

Non-randomised trial

Intervention model

Single group

Primary purpose

Treatment

Masking

Open (masking not used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to 65 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Diagnosis of psychogenic seizures

Exclusion criteria

Serious respiratory disorder Epilepsy

Outcome results