Investigating the effect of meditation on older people
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Effect of meditation on older people
- Registration Number
- DRKS00034588
- Lead Sponsor
- niversitätsklinikum Tübingen Institut für Allgemeinmedizin und Interprofessionelle Versorgung
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 2
Inclusion Criteria
Many years of meditation experience vs. no many years of meditation experience
- Full capacity to consent
Exclusion Criteria
- Presence of infectious diseases (with a core body temperature of more than 38 °C)
- Cardiac arrhythmia treated with medication
- Cardiac pacemaker (pace maker)
- Ingestion of vasoactive substances or
Medication with an influence on heart rate variability, e.g. sympathomimetics, sympatholytics or tricyclic antidepressants
- Bronchial asthma
- insufficient understanding of the German
German language
- Acute diseases of the psyche and nervous system
nervous system, e.g. acute suicidal tendencies, acute psychosis10
- Serious illness (e.g. end-of-life care in the context of cancer)
- Insufficient mobility
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Two n-equals-1 studies will be conducted. For this purpose, various cardiorespiratory parameters will be measured under meditation at three measurement dates in n=1 older people (aged 70 and over) with and n=1 older people (aged 70 and over) without many years of meditation experience. The primary target parameter is mean arterial pressure (MAD) at all time points. The aim of the study is to explore the mechanisms of action of meditation in older people based on the primary parameter and the secondary parameters.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Blood pressure (diastolic / systolic), heart rate, pulse wave velocity, respiratory rate, blood oxygen saturation (SpO2), perfusion index,<br>pulse wave latency, carbon dioxide Co2 (inspiratory/expiratory), neurovegetative activity (parameters of the time and frequency domain of heart rate variability), electroencephalography