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Respiratory feedback for treating panic disorder
Author(s) -
Meuret Alicia E.,
Wilhelm Frank H.,
Roth Walton T.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.10245
Subject(s) - hyperventilation , panic disorder , respiratory rate , respiratory system , breathing , panic , respiratory monitoring , biofeedback , tidal volume , psychology , medicine , ventilation (architecture) , respiration , control of respiration , anesthesia , intensive care medicine , physical therapy , anxiety , psychiatry , heart rate , mechanical engineering , blood pressure , engineering , anatomy
Panic disorder patients often complain of shortness of breath or other respiratory complaints, which has been used as evidence for both hyperventilation and false suffocation alarm theories of panic. Training patients to change their breathing patterns is a common intervention, but breathing rarely has been measured objectively in assessing the patient or monitoring therapy results. We report a new breathing training method that makes use of respiratory biofeedback to teach individuals to modify four respiratory characteristics: increased ventilation (Respiratory Rate × Tidal Volume), breath‐to‐breath irregularity in rate and depth, and chest breathing. As illustrated by a composite case, feedback of respiratory rate and end‐tidal pCO 2 can facilitate voluntary control of respiration and reduce symptoms. Respiratory monitoring may provide relevant diagnostic, prognostic, and outcome information. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol/In Session.