Research on the Impact of Breathing Exercises and Aerobic Exercises on Quality of Life in Patients with Bronchial Asthma: A Comparative Study
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37506/j4yvtj68Keywords:
Asthma, Breathing exercises, Aerobic exercises, AQLQ & SF36 questionnaire.Abstract
Background: Asthma is defined as a chronic inflammatory disorder of airways characterized by reversible airflow obstruction causing cough, wheeze, chest tightness and shortness of breath Crompton et al7Asthmatic attacks are set up by exposure to specific allergens such as house dust mite, pollen and animal dander. Some other factors are exercise particularly running, dyes, air pollution, infection, cigarette smoke, dry inhaled air, certain foods such as fish, eggs, yeast, and wheat which presumably reach the bronchi via blood stream. There is noticeable increase in healthcare burden from asthma in several areas of world .The most frequently mentioned aims of breathing exercises are to ‘normalize’ breathing pattern by adopting a slower respiratory rate with longer expiration and reduction of hyperventilation and hyperinflation. Training also frequently involves encouraging nasal breathing and a diaphragmatic breathing pattern.AQLQ AND SF36 questionnaire was used as outcome measure.
Methods: The sample size of this study was 30 subjects with 15 subjects in each group. The group A was given breathing exercises interventions and group B was given aerobic exercises intervention. A written consent was taken from each before their participation into the study. Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (AQLQ) and SF-36 quality of life Questionnaire of both the groups were taken in 0 week and both groups were assigned treatment interventions and after 3 weeks the AQLQ and SF-36 quality of life questionnaire has been repeated.
The independent variables in the study were Aerobic Exercises and Breathing Exercises.
Conclusion: The breathing exercise intervention was effective in improving the quality of life in asthmatic patients.
The aerobic exercise intervention was also effective in improving the quality of life in asthmatic patients.
However, the quantum of reduction in lung obstruction and therefore, the overall improvement in quality of life found to be more significant with the aerobic exercise intervention than breathing exercise intervention. Thus,a combination of the breathing exercises and aerobic exercise should be incorporated into the pulmonary rehabilitation program of the asthmatic patients.
Downloads
References
Haas, F., Pasierski, S., Levine, N., Bishop, M., Axen, K., Pi-neda, H. and Haas, Aeffect of aerobic training on forcedexpiratory airflow in exercising asthmatic patients. J. Appl. Physiol. 63(3): 1230-1235: 1987
Hallstrand, T.S., Peter, M.D. ,Bates, F.C.C.P. and Schoene,R.B. Aerobic Conditioning in Mild Asthma Decreases the Hyperpnea of Exercise and Improves Exercise and Ven-tilatory Capacity. Chest 118: 1460-1469 :2000..
Jia CE, Zhang HP, Lv Y, Liang R, Jiang YQ, Powell H, Fu JJ,Wang L, Gibson PG, Wang G: The Asthma Control Testand Asthma Control Questionnaire for assessing asth-ma control: systematic review and meta-analysis. J Al-lergy Clin Immunol. 2013, 131 (3): 695-703. 10.1016/j.jaci.2012.08.023.
Fanelli A, Cabral AL, Neder JA, Martins MA, Carvalho CR: Exercise training on disease control and quality of life in asthmatic children. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2007, 39 (9):1474-1480.
Nagarathna R, Nagendra HR: Yoga for bronchial asthma: a controlled study. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed). 1985, 291(6502): 1077-1079. 10.1136/bmj.291.6502.1077.
Hou YS, Li J, Hou L. The effect of rehabilitation exerciseprescription on breathing function of teenage bronchial asthma sufferers.J Phys Educ. 2006;13:58–60.
Menzies-Gow A, Bafadhel M, Busse WW, etal. An expertconsensus framework for asthma remission as a treat-ment goal.J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2020;145(3):757–765.
Wu CR. Effects of lip contraction and abdominal breath-ing combined with breathing exercises on lung function and quality of life in patients with asthma.J Clin Res.2016;33:2025–2027.
Raghavendra P, Shetty P, Shetty S, etal. Effect of high-fre-quency yoga breathing on pulmonary functions in pa-tients with asthma: a randomized clinical trial.Ann Al-lergy Asthma Immunol. 2016;117(5):550–551.
Gershon AS, Guan J, Wang C, To T. Trends in asthma prev-alence and incidence in Ontario, Canada, 1996–2005: apopulation study.Am J Epidemiol.2010;172(6):728–736.
Rauscher, M.. Aerobic fitness improves asthma control in kids. Med. Sci. Sport. Exer. 39(9): 1474–1480. 2007
Saxena, T., Saxena, M.. The effect of various breathing ex-ercises (pranayama) in patients with bronchial asthmaof mild to moderate severity. Int. J. Yoga (2): 22-25.2009
Aggarwal, A.N., Chaudhary, K., Chhabra, S.K., D‟Souza, G.A., Gupta, D., Jindal, S.K., Katiyar, S.K., Kumar, R., Shah,B. and Vijayan, V.K.. In Prevalence of risk factors forbronchial asthma in Indian adults: A multicentre study.Indian J. Chest. Dis. Allied Sci. 48: 13-22.2006.
Awasthy, S., Kalra, E., Roy, S., and Awasthy, S. 2004. Preva-lence of risk factors of asthma and wheeze in school-go-ing children in lucknow, North India. Indian Pediatrics..Chatkin, M.N., Menezes, A.M.B., Macedo, S.E.C. and Fiss E.. Asthma and lung functions in a birth cohort at 6-7years of age in Southern Brazil 41: 1205-12102008..
Stein RT, Martinez FD. Asthma phenotypes in childhood: lessons from an epidemiological approach.Paediatr Re-spir Rev.2004;5(2):155–161
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.