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Stress Management and Biomarkers of Risk in Cardiac Rehabilitation

NCT00981253 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 164

Last updated 2018-02-01

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the extent to which combining exercise and stress management training (SMT) is more effective at improving biomarkers in vulnerable cardiac patients compared to exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation alone.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

SMT-enhanced Cardiac Rehabilitation

Standard exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation, three times per week, enhanced with weekly stress management training for 12 weeks.

BEHAVIORAL

Standard Cardiac Rehabilitation

Supervised exercise, three times per week, for 12 weeks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

    collaborator NIH

  • Duke University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • James A. Blumenthal, PhD · Duke University

  • Alan Hinderliter, MD · University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
35 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-09-30
Primary Completion
2014-07-31
Completion
2016-02-29

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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