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Optimizing Expectations in Cardiac Surgery Patients

NCT01407055 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 124

Last updated 2016-02-03

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the potential benefit of targeting patients' expectations before coronary artery bypass graft surgery through a brief psychoeducational intervention.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Expectation Manipulation Intervention

The Expectation Manipulation Intervention targets patients' expectations prior to surgery (2 individual sessions, 2 phone calls). Main goal is to enhance positive outcome expectancies, as well as to improve patients' control expectations about possible side effects of the surgery and about their personal management of their coronary heart disease. Further EMI tries to correct dysfunctional beliefs about the coronary heart disease and tries to minimize fears about expected negative consequences.

BEHAVIORAL

Supportive Therapy

Supportive therapy employs common factors such as elicitation of affect, reflective listening, feeling understood, but provides no explicit theoretical formulation to the patient. Supportive therapy thus provides a control condition for common factors and therapist attention but lacks the specific intervention part. It will be delivered in the same frequency and at the same time points as the Expectation Manipulation Intervention (2 individual sessions, 2 phone calls).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Philipps University Marburg

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Winfried Rief, Prof. Dr. · Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychothearpy, Philipps University of Marburg

  • Rainer Moosdorf, Prof. Dr. · Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Vessel Surgery, Heart Centre, Philipps University of Marburg

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-07-31
Primary Completion
2015-04-30
Completion
2015-04-30

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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