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Improvement in Clinical Outcomes in Heart Failure Patients With ICDs That Practice Meditation

NCT00611260 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 27

Last updated 2017-05-30

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Summary

This is a trial to examine the effects of meditation on the incidence of ventricular arrhythmias and the psychological profiles in patients with implanted cardiac defibrillators.

We wish to test the following hypotheses:

1. Vipassana meditation reduces the incidence of atrial and ventricular arrhythmias in patients with congestive heart failure.
2. Vipassana meditation improves the psychological profile in patients with CHF. In this study, subjects meeting the inclusion and exclusion criteria will be recruited into the study after obtaining informed consent. The subjects will then be randomized into either an experimental group ( Meditation) or into a control group (usual care).

Conditions

  • Congestive Heart Failure
  • Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Vipassana Meditation practice and instruction

2-3 instructed meditation sessions per week in addition to standard medical care.

OTHER

Standard Medical Care

Standard medical care for patients with congestive heart failure plus implanted cardiac defibrillators.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of California, Davis

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Uma Srivatsa, MD · University of California, Davis

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
85 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-04-30
Primary Completion
2012-02-29
Completion
2012-02-29

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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