Meditation Breathing Training and Short-Term Recovery in Patients Undergoing Thoracoscopic Lung Cancer Resection: A Non-Randomized Historical-Control Study.
4 affiliations
- 1Department of Nursing, Shanghai General Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
- 2Department of Thoracic Surgery, Songjiang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
- 3Department of Nursing, Songjiang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
- 4Obstetric Intensive Care Unit, Lianyungang Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, Lianyungang, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.
Abstract
To investigate the association of meditation breathing training with short-term physical and mental recovery in lung cancer patients after thoracoscopic lobectomy. A non-randomized historical control study design was adopted. A total of 62 patients (31 per group) diagnosed with lung cancer and receiving thoracoscopic surgery at our hospital between January 2023 and June 2024 were enrolled. Patients were allocated by admission period: 31 patients admitted from January to September 2023 were set as the control group (routine care and standard breathing training); another 31 patients admitted from October 2023 to June 2024 were assigned to the experimental group (additional meditation breathing training, twice daily for 10 minutes, from postoperative day 2 to discharge). Randomization and blinding were not applied. The primary outcome was exercise capacity (6-minute walk test, 6MWT); secondary outcomes included dyspnea (Borg scale), pain (Visual Analogue Scale, VAS), anxiety and depression (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, HADS), training compliance, and postoperative recovery indicators. Following the completion of the targeted intervention, the experimental group showed greater improvements in exercise capacity (adjusted mean difference: +51.64 m; 95% CI: 17.28 to 86.00), dyspnea (adjusted mean difference: -0.65; 95% CI: -1.11 to -0.19), pain (adjusted mean difference: -0.52; 95% CI: -1.00 to -0.04), and anxiety (adjusted mean difference: -1.37; 95% CI: -2.43 to -0.30), and higher training compliance (87.1% vs 64.5%; OR: 3.71; 95% CI: 1.04 to 13.25) compared with the control group; however, the between-group differences in the primary outcomes did not remain statistically significant after Bonferroni correction (adjusted P = 0.019, 0.034, 0.173, 0.064, and 1.000 for exercise capacity, dyspnea, pain, anxiety, and depression, respectively). No significant between-group differences were observed for depression scores, postoperative pulmonary complications, chest tube duration, or hospital stay. In this non-randomized historical-control study, meditation breathing training was associated with improvements in selected short‑term outcomes including exercise capacity, dyspnea, and training compliance; suggestive reductions in pain and anxiety were also observed, though these did not retain statistical significance after Bonferroni correction. Confirmatory randomized controlled trials are required.
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BibTeX
@article{huang2026meditation,
title = {{Meditation Breathing Training and Short-Term Recovery in Patients Undergoing Thoracoscopic Lung Cancer Resection: A Non-Randomized Historical-Control Study.}},
author = {Xueping Huang and Huiping Luo and Zhenjuan Dai and Jianying Zhou and Liping Wang and Jie Wang and Fang Fang},
journal = {Cancer management and research},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
doi = {10.2147/cmar.s617632},
url = {https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42997472},
note = {CC BY-NC},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Meditation Breathing Training and Short-Term Recovery in Patients Undergoing Thoracoscopic Lung Cancer Resection: A Non-Randomized Historical-Control Study.
AU - Xueping Huang
AU - Huiping Luo
AU - Zhenjuan Dai
AU - Jianying Zhou
AU - Liping Wang
AU - Jie Wang
AU - Fang Fang
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/11/02
JO - Cancer management and research
DO - 10.2147/cmar.s617632
UR - https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42997472
AB - To investigate the association of meditation breathing training with short-term physical and mental recovery in lung cancer patients after thoracoscopic lobectomy. A non-randomized historical control study design was adopted. A total of 62 patients (31 per group) diagnosed with lung cancer and receiving thoracoscopic surgery at our hospital between January 2023 and June 2024 were enrolled. Patients were allocated by admission period: 31 patients admitted from January to September 2023 were set as the control group (routine care and standard breathing training); another 31 patients admitted from October 2023 to June 2024 were assigned to the experimental group (additional meditation breathing training, twice daily for 10 minutes, from postoperative day 2 to discharge). Randomization and blinding were not applied. The primary outcome was exercise capacity (6-minute walk test, 6MWT); secondary outcomes included dyspnea (Borg scale), pain (Visual Analogue Scale, VAS), anxiety and depression (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, HADS), training compliance, and postoperative recovery indicators. Following the completion of the targeted intervention, the experimental group showed greater improvements in exercise capacity (adjusted mean difference: +51.64 m; 95% CI: 17.28 to 86.00), dyspnea (adjusted mean difference: -0.65; 95% CI: -1.11 to -0.19), pain (adjusted mean difference: -0.52; 95% CI: -1.00 to -0.04), and anxiety (adjusted mean difference: -1.37; 95% CI: -2.43 to -0.30), and higher training compliance (87.1% vs 64.5%; OR: 3.71; 95% CI: 1.04 to 13.25) compared with the control group; however, the between-group differences in the primary outcomes did not remain statistically significant after Bonferroni correction (adjusted P = 0.019, 0.034, 0.173, 0.064, and 1.000 for exercise capacity, dyspnea, pain, anxiety, and depression, respectively). No significant between-group differences were observed for depression scores, postoperative pulmonary complications, chest tube duration, or hospital stay. In this non-randomized historical-control study, meditation breathing training was associated with improvements in selected short‑term outcomes including exercise capacity, dyspnea, and training compliance; suggestive reductions in pain and anxiety were also observed, though these did not retain statistical significance after Bonferroni correction. Confirmatory randomized controlled trials are required.
SN - 1179-1322
ER -