Adherence Activity & Outcome Measure Belt for Yoga

描述（由申请人提供）：许多临床健康的改善已经声称可能通过身心医学技术，特别是瑜伽。科学界正在对这些说法进行检验，以便从未经证实的说法中找出合理的说法。然而，根据RFA-AT-06-002，“了解并准确测量患者和研究参与者遵守研究方案的程度对于了解干预的剂量、有效性、安全性和可行性至关重要。”“依从性是通过自我报告日记测量或使用手持设备来评估的。这两种策略都受到潜在的参与者偏见、不准确性和患者负担的限制。”该项目将设计、制造并测试一个小型可穿戴设备，该设备将监测关键的生理信号，包括心率、胸腹呼吸频率、氧饱和度和体位，从而客观地记录患者的依从性。除了坚持锻炼，活动表现和结果指标也会被记录下来，以监测锻炼的效果以及锻炼对个人的影响。”虽然身心医学技术，尤其是瑜伽，已经存在了很长时间，并被认为对健康有很多好处，但支持这些说法的科学证据却很难获得。这个项目将开发一种新的设备，使科学界能够更容易地进行关键的实验，这些实验将确定这种替代药物可以带来哪些健康益处。最终，更好地理解这些身心医学技术将为每个人带来更好的医学治疗。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Many clinical health improvements have been claimed to be possible through mind-body medicine techniques and yoga in particular. These claims are being tested throughout the scientific community to sort out legitimate claims from unsubstantiated claims. However, per RFA-AT-06-002, "understanding and accurately measuring the extent to which patients and study participants adhere to study protocols is essential to understand the dose, the efficacy, the safety, and the feasibility of the intervention." "Adherence is assessed using self- report diary measures or employing handheld devices. Both strategies are limited by potential participant bias, inaccuracy, and patient burden." This program will design, build and test a small wearable device that will monitor key physiological signals, including heart rate, thoracic and abdominal respiration rate, oxygen saturation and body position, such that patient adherence will be objectively recorded. In addition to adherence, activity performance and outcome measures will be recorded to monitor how well the exercises are being performed and how much affect the exercises have on the individuals." Although mind-body medicine techniques, and yoga in particular, have been around for a very long time and have been attributed with many health benefits, scientific evidence supporting those claims have been difficult to acquire. This program will develop a new device that will enable the scientific community to more easily perform the critical experiments that will determine which health benefits can be expected from this alternative medicine. Ultimately, a better understanding of these mind-body medicine techniques will lead to better medical treatments for everyone.