マインドフルネスはCOPD患者の不安、息苦しさ、不眠の管理に役立つ(Study: Mindfulness helps people with COPD manage anxiety, breathlessness, insomnia)

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2025-02-21 バッファロー大学(UB)

ニューヨーク州立大学バッファロー校(UB)の看護学部の研究者たちは、慢性閉塞性肺疾患(COPD)患者におけるマインドフルネスの有益性を明らかにしました。2024年12月に『Heart & Lung: The Journal of Cardiopulmonary and Acute Care』に掲載されたこの研究では、339人のCOPD患者を対象に調査を行い、マインドフルネスを実践している参加者は、不安、息切れ、疲労、不眠といった症状が有意に軽減されていることが示されました。特に、マインドフルネスを知っているだけでなく、日常的に実践している人々で顕著な不安の軽減が観察され、実践の重要性が強調されています。研究を主導したタニア・フォン・ヴィスガー博士は、マインドフルネスが症状管理と生活の質の向上に関連していると述べ、未経験者への導入や継続的なサポートの必要性を指摘しています。

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慢性閉塞性肺疾患(COPD)の成人におけるマインドフルネスと症状重症度の関連性 Associations between mindfulness and symptom severity among adults living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Tania T. Von Visger, Ph.D, APRN, ASTF, PCCN-K∙ Kayla Wardlaw, MSN, RN, CCRN, CNE, Ph.D. Student ∙ Chin-Shang Li, Ph.D. ∙ Yu-Ping Chang, Ph.D., R.N., FGSA, FIAAN, FAAN∙ Lea Ann Matura, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN
Heart & Lung: The Journal of Cardiopulmonary and Acute Care  Published:December 13, 2024
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrtlng.2024.12.002

Highlights

  • Adults with COPD who practiced mindfulness reported lower depressive symptoms.
  • Adults with COPD who practiced mindfulness reported better symptom management.
  • Differences exist in the mindfulness practice of adults with COPD based on ethnicity.
  • There are phenotypic profile differences based on levels of mindfulness among adults with COPD.

Abstract

Background
Mindfulness-based interventions (MBI) benefit adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) by helping them manage their symptoms and improve their quality of life. Little is known about their baseline mindfulness knowledge and practice and how these may relate to symptom management.

Objectives
To 1) compare symptom severity scores of depression, anxiety, dyspnea, fatigue, and insomnia between those who know and practice mindfulness and those who do not, and 2) construct phenotype profile characteristics of COPD patients based on their levels of mindfulness.

Methods
339 community-dwelling adults (mean age 53.43±13.48 years, 61.28 % male, and 48.21 % White) completed an online cross-sectional survey study indicating their mindfulness knowledge, practice, level, and COPD symptom severity. After adjusting for multiple comparisons among the three groups, we used Kruskal-Wallis, Fisher’s exact, and Chi-squared tests to compare variables’ differences among these three mindfulness levels.

Results
Participants who self-identified as knowledgeable about mindfulness (n = 315) reported significantly lower severity of dyspnea and fatigue. Participants who self-identified as current practitioners of mindfulness (n = 282) reported substantially lower symptom severity. Among the different mindfulness groups, levels of phenotype profile analysis showed statistically significant differences in demographic and clinical characteristics, including depressive symptoms, age, ethnicity, education level, and years living with COPD. We found no differences in gender or disease severity levels.

Conclusions
Community-dwelling adults with COPD who practiced mindfulness reported lower symptom severity than those who did not. This suggests the potential benefits of MBI integration as a complementary health approach to symptom management. The mindfulness level phenotype profile is critical to tailoring MBIs. It can guide the design and delivery of MBIs with optimal feasibility, acceptability, effectiveness, and sustained adherence for adults with COPD according to their mindfulness level profiles.

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