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Mind-body Interventions in Cardiac Patients

NCT01270568 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2011-01-21

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Summary

This study is investigating whether a series of psychological exercises, called positive psychology, provides benefit to patients who have been hospitalized for heart disease (an 'acute coronary syndrome' or heart failure).

In this study, subjects are randomly assigned to complete 8 positive psychology exercises over 8 weeks, or to complete different exercises in control groups.

We hypothesize that patients who are assigned to the positive psychology tasks will be able to complete the exercises at a high rate, will feel that the exercises were easy to perform, and will have greater improvements of optimism, anxiety, mood, and health-related quality of life than subjects in the control conditions.

Conditions

  • Acute Coronary Syndrome
  • Congestive Heart Failure

Interventions

OTHER

Positive Psychology

Weekly exercises focused on optimism, gratitude, altruism, and other positive affective states

BEHAVIORAL

Relaxation Response

Daily practice of relaxation response, reviewed on a weekly basis

BEHAVIORAL

Recollection

Subjects record daily events on a weekly basis for 8 weeks

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-03-31
Primary Completion
2011-01-31
Completion
2011-01-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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