Ethnicity Differences in Sleep Changes Among Prehypertensive Adults Using a Smartphone Meditation App: Dose-Response Trial
| Autor: | Frank A. Treiber, Martina Mueller, Mercedes Cain, Brenda Brunner-Jackson, Vanessa A. Diaz, John C Sieverdes, Christopher E. Kline, Jessica Chandler, Maria Swem, Luke Sox |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
meditation media_common.quotation_subject lcsh:Medicine Medicine (miscellaneous) Health Informatics Prehypertension Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Meditation sleep media_common prehypertension Sleep disorder Original Paper mobile phone business.industry lcsh:R Actigraphy medicine.disease Sleep in non-human animals Computer Science Applications Blood pressure Physical therapy Breathing ethnicity business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | JMIR Formative Research JMIR Formative Research, Vol 4, Iss 10, p e20501 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2561-326X |
| Popis: | Background African Americans (AAs) experience greater sleep quality problems than non-Hispanic Whites (NHWs). Meditation may aid in addressing this disparity, although the dosage levels needed to achieve such benefits have not been adequately studied. Smartphone apps present a novel modality for delivering, monitoring, and measuring adherence to meditation protocols. Objective This 6-month dose-response feasibility trial investigated the effects of a breathing awareness meditation (BAM) app, Tension Tamer, on the secondary outcomes of self-reported and actigraphy measures of sleep quality and the modulating effects of ethnicity of AAs and NHWs. Methods A total of 64 prehypertensive adults (systolic blood pressure Results At baseline, PSQI and actigraphy data indicated that AAs had shorter sleep duration, greater sleep disturbance, poorer efficiency, and worse quality of sleep (range P=.03 to P Conclusions These findings indicate the need for further study of the potential modulating influence of ethnicity on the impact of BAM on sleep indices and user-centered exploration to ascertain the potential merits of refining the Tension Tamer app with attention to cultural tailoring among AAs and NHWs with pre-existing sleep complaints. |
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