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Online cough suppression therapy for refractory chronic cough
What is it about?
People with refractory chronic cough completed an online cough suppression therapy treatment or a healthy-lifestyle education treatment via a study website over four weeks. The people who received the cough treatment had meaningful improvements in cough-related quality of life.
Why is it important?
This study shows how an online therapy program that required participants to read information, watch videos, and perform cough suppression in their daily lives is a treatment avenue that warrants more exploration. Results point to how cough suppression therapy may be an ideal treatment to be delivered as a digital therapeutic (with an app) that includes both tracking cough and learning how to suppress cough.