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Expressive Writing for Heart Healing

NCT01253486 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2021-02-12

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Summary

This study will determine whether the psychological and physical benefits of expressive writing extend to obese in-patients with Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD)referred to cardiac rehabilitation

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Disease-related Expressive writing

Participants in the disease-related expressive writing condition write about their feelings about cardiac disease four times, for at least 20 minutes each time, during a two week period.

BEHAVIORAL

Active Comparator: Traditional expressive writing

Participants in the traditional expressive writing condition write about their feelings about one or more stressful experiences they lived in the past, for at least 20 minutes each time, during a two week period

BEHAVIORAL

Sham Comparator: Neutral writing

Participants in the neutral writing condition write about the facts about cardiac disease, for at least 20 minutes each time, during a two week period

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Istituto Auxologico Italiano

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Gianluca Castelnuovo, Ph.D. · Istituto Auxologico Italiano

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-01-31
Primary Completion
2012-09-30
Completion
2013-05-31

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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Diseases

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