The Effects of Presleep Slow Breathing and Music Listening on Polysomnographic Sleep Measures - a pilot trial
Kuula L, Halonen R, Kajanto K, Lipsanen J, Makkonen T, Peltonen M, Pesonen AK
Scientific reports · 17 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Randomized controlled trial (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- Government
- Academy of Finland
Based on 1 listed funder(s) and full-text disclosure statement.
Publication
- Published
- 2020-05-04 · Sci Rep · vol. 10 · issue 1 · p. 7427
- Publisher
- Nature Portfolio
- Cited
- 38 citations · more than 92% of similar papers · 3.2× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 36 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Sleep and related disorders · Sleep and Wakefulness Research · EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Keywords
- Polysomnography, Sleep (system call), Arousal, Audiology, Active listening, Breathing, Randomized controlled trial, Crossover study, Sleep Stages, Heart rate variability, Psychology, Medicine, Heart rate, Psychiatry, Electroencephalography, Internal medicine, Blood pressure, Social psychology, Communication, Placebo, Computer science
- MeSH
- autonomic nervous system, humans, electroencephalography, polysomnography, breathing exercises, pilot projects, cross-over studies, auditory perception, sleep stages, circadian rhythm, heart rate, respiration, quality of life, music, signal processing, computer-assisted, adult, middle aged, female, male, young adult, respiratory rate, sleep, slow-wave
7 authors
From FI
- Liisa Kuula · correspondingUniversity of Helsinki
- Risto HalonenUniversity of Helsinki
- Kristiina KajantoUniversity of Helsinki
- Jari Olavi LipsanenUniversity of Helsinki
- Tommi MakkonenUniversity of Helsinki
- Miina PeltonenUniversity of Helsinki
Abstract
Knowledge on efficient ways to reduce presleep arousal and, therefore, improve sleep, is scanty. We explored the effects of presleep slow breathing and music listening conditions on sleep quality and EEG power spectral density in young adults in a randomized, controlled trial with a crossover design. Participants' (N = 20, 50% females) sleep was measured on two consecutive nights with polysomnography (40 nights), the other night serving as the control condition. The intervention condition was either a 30-minute slow breathing exercise or music listening (music by Max Richter: Sleep). The intervention and control conditions were placed in a random order. We measured heart rate variability prior to, during and after the intervention condition, and found that both interventions increased immediate heart rate variability. Music listening resulted in decreased N2 sleep, increased frontal beta1 power spectral density, and a trend towards increased N3 sleep was detected. In the slow breathing condition higher central delta power during N3 was observed. While some indices pointed to improved sleep quality in both intervention groups, neither condition had robust effects on sleep quality. These explorative findings warrant further replication in different populations.
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