TY - JOUR
T1 - The impact of urban zen integrative therapy on symptoms and health-related quality of life for patients with pulmonary hypertension
AU - Von Visger, Tania T.
AU - Thrane, Susan E.
AU - Klatt, Maryanna D.
AU - Dabbs, Annette Devito
AU - Chlan, Linda L.
AU - Tan, Alai
AU - Happ, Mary Beth
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright 2020, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2020.
PY - 2020/5/1
Y1 - 2020/5/1
N2 - Background: Patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) experience distressing symptoms that can undermine quality of life (QoL) and treatment adherence. Complementary health approaches are known to help manage symptoms of chronic conditions and may have therapeutic benefits in PH. Objective: To explore the impact of Urban Zen Integrative Therapy (UZIT) on PH-related symptoms. Design: A within-subjects, pre-/post-intervention, repeated-measures design. Subjects/Setting: Community-dwelling adults with PH received weekly UZIT sessions in an outpatient setting. Measurements: Participants (n = 14) rated symptoms before and after each session and before and after the six-week UZIT program. Mixed-effects modeling with repeated measures was used to estimate differences in mean symptom scores before and after individual sessions. Cohen's d effect sizes were used to evaluate the impact of the UZIT program on symptoms. Results: Mean scores for pain (F(1, 105) = 19.99, p < 0.001), anxiety (F(1, 96) = 24.64, p < 0.001), fatigue (F (1, 120) = 15.68, p < 0.001), and dyspnea (F(1, 68) = 16.69, p < 0.001) were significantly reduced after UZIT sessions. Effects were moderate to large for symptom severity (d = 0.59-1.32) and moderate for symptom burden (d = 0.56) and fatigue (d = 0.62), and small for QoL (d = 0.33) after the six-week UZIT program. Conclusions: Individualized UZIT sessions were associated with reductions in symptom severity for pain, anxiety, fatigue, and dyspnea. The six-week UZIT program was associated with improvements in symptom burden, activity limitation, and QoL. ClinicalTrial.gov no.:
AB - Background: Patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) experience distressing symptoms that can undermine quality of life (QoL) and treatment adherence. Complementary health approaches are known to help manage symptoms of chronic conditions and may have therapeutic benefits in PH. Objective: To explore the impact of Urban Zen Integrative Therapy (UZIT) on PH-related symptoms. Design: A within-subjects, pre-/post-intervention, repeated-measures design. Subjects/Setting: Community-dwelling adults with PH received weekly UZIT sessions in an outpatient setting. Measurements: Participants (n = 14) rated symptoms before and after each session and before and after the six-week UZIT program. Mixed-effects modeling with repeated measures was used to estimate differences in mean symptom scores before and after individual sessions. Cohen's d effect sizes were used to evaluate the impact of the UZIT program on symptoms. Results: Mean scores for pain (F(1, 105) = 19.99, p < 0.001), anxiety (F(1, 96) = 24.64, p < 0.001), fatigue (F (1, 120) = 15.68, p < 0.001), and dyspnea (F(1, 68) = 16.69, p < 0.001) were significantly reduced after UZIT sessions. Effects were moderate to large for symptom severity (d = 0.59-1.32) and moderate for symptom burden (d = 0.56) and fatigue (d = 0.62), and small for QoL (d = 0.33) after the six-week UZIT program. Conclusions: Individualized UZIT sessions were associated with reductions in symptom severity for pain, anxiety, fatigue, and dyspnea. The six-week UZIT program was associated with improvements in symptom burden, activity limitation, and QoL. ClinicalTrial.gov no.:
KW - Urban Zen Integrative Therapy
KW - complementary health approach
KW - integrative therapy
KW - mindfulness
KW - pulmonary hypertension
KW - quality of life
KW - symptom burden
KW - symptom management
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U2 - 10.1089/jpm.2019.0359
DO - 10.1089/jpm.2019.0359
M3 - Article
C2 - 31644380
AN - SCOPUS:85084379686
SN - 1096-6218
VL - 23
SP - 703
EP - 711
JO - Journal of Palliative Medicine
JF - Journal of Palliative Medicine
IS - 5
ER -