The Effect of Breathing Exercise on Sleep and Stress Levels in Women With Breast Cancer Receiving Chemotherapy Treatment

March 4, 2025 updated by: Gürcan Solmaz, University of Yalova

İstanbul University-Cerrahpaşa

Women receiving chemotherapy have poor sleep quality and high stress levels. With a method such as breathing exercise, which can be applied at any time without side effects, positive improvements in women's sleep and stress levels can be recorded.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Women receiving chemotherapy have poor sleep quality and high stress levels. With a method such as breathing exercise, which can be applied at any time without side effects, positive improvements in women's sleep and stress levels can be recorded.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

65

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Turkey
      • Istanbul, Turkey
        • University of İstanbul-cerrahpaşa (IUC)

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • women receiving chemotherapy women with poor sleep quality 18 years of age and above women with high stress levels

Exclusion Criteria:

  • who do not want to participate

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: breathing exercise group
breathing exercise group: make breathing exercise for 12 weeks
Other: Breathing exercise
For 12 weeks they will do kumbaka breathing exercise for 5 minutes twice a day in the morning and evening
Other Names:
  • breathing and control group
No Intervention: control group
control group: continue standart treartment

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
anxiety state scale
Time Frame: 12 weeks
anxiety state scale point min:0 max:63)
12 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

University of Yalova

Investigators

  • Study Chair: Gürcan Solmaz, PhD, İstanbulUniversity-Cerrahpaşa
  • Study Chair: Gürcan Solmaz, PhD, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

November 1, 2023

Primary Completion (Actual)

April 30, 2024

Study Completion (Actual)

April 30, 2024

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

March 12, 2024

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 12, 2024

First Posted (Actual)

March 19, 2024

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

March 25, 2025

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 4, 2025

Last Verified

March 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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