How exercise interventions could help people with asthma

Date:
January 7, 2022
Source:
University of East Anglia
Summary:
Interventions aimed at promoting physical activity in people
with asthma could improve their symptoms and quality of life
-- according to new research. Researchers looked at whether
interventions such as aerobic and strength or resistance training,
had helped participants with asthma.

Although they found that these interventions worked, patients
with asthma may have had difficulty undertaking them because
of their difficulty traveling to fitness groups or because the
interventions were not suitable for people with additional health
conditions. But the team say that digital interventions -- such as
video appointments, smartwatches and mobile apps -- could remove
some of these barriers and enable patients to carry out home-based
programs in future.



FULL STORY ========================================================================== Interventions aimed at promoting physical activity in people with asthma
could improve their symptoms and quality of life -- according to new
research from the University of East Anglia.


========================================================================== Researchers looked at whether interventions such as aerobic and strength
or resistance training, had helped participants with asthma.

Although they found that these interventions worked, patients with asthma
may have had difficulty undertaking them because of their difficulty
travelling to fitness groups or because the interventions were not
suitable for people with additional health conditions.

But the team say that digital interventions -- such as video appointments, smartwatches and mobile apps -- could remove some of these barriers and
enable patients to carry out home-based programmes in future.

Prof Andrew Wilson, from UEA's Norwich Medical School, said: "Being
physically active is widely recommended for people with asthma. Doing
more than 150 minutes a week of moderate to vigorous physical activity has extensive benefits including improved lung function and asthma control.

"But research has shown that people living with asthma engage in less
physical activity and are more sedentary than people without asthma.



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"We wanted to find out whether interventions -- such as being asked to
perform aerobic exercise a few times a week in group sessions, together
with 'goal setting' -- are effective in helping people with asthma
be more active." The team studied interventions that were designed
to promote physical activity in adults with asthma. They looked at 25
separate studies from around the world involving 1,849 participants with asthma, to see whether their symptoms and quality of life were changed
thanks to the interventions.

Postgraduate researcher Leanne Tyson, also from UEA's Norwich Medical
School said: "We found that interventions that promote physical
activity had significant benefits in terms of increasing physical
activity, decreasing time spent sedentary, improving quality of life,
and decreasing asthma symptoms.

"This is really important because helping patients make significant
behaviour changes could really improve their outcomes in the long term.

"Our review also highlights the potential use of digital interventions,
which were notably absent.

"This is important now more than ever as patients have not been able to
attend face-to-face support during the Covid-19 pandemic, and services
will likely become overwhelmed. Therefore, alternative interventions
and methods of delivery need to be considered." This study was funded
by the Asthma UK Centre For Applied Research.

'A Systematic Review of the Characteristics of Interventions that Promote Physical Activity in Adults with Asthma' is published in the Journal of
Health Psychology.

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========================================================================== Journal Reference:
1. Leanne Tyson, Wendy Hardeman, Malcolm Marquette, Joanna Semlyen,
Gareth
Stratton, Andrew M Wilson. A systematic review of the
characteristics of interventions that promote physical activity
in adults with asthma.

Journal of Health Psychology, 2021; 135910532110593 DOI: 10.1177/
13591053211059386 ==========================================================================

Link to news story: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/01/220107084425.htm
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