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Group Psychotherapy Among Congestive Heart Failure Patients

NCT01414439 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2011-08-30

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Summary

This study will examine the efficacy of group therapy utilizing the Existential Approach in heart failure patients when compared to a control group of patients who are waiting for the same group treatment. This comparison will be achieved by measuring changes in the variables studied namely, the levels of psychological distress and levels of psycho-social adjustment.

Conditions

  • Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Existential Group Therapy

The treatment will be given in two groups of eight to ten participants each one and will consist of one hour weekly sessions over a period of seven weeks. Dividing the subjects into small groups allows reference to all members of the group. The group facilitators will be two psychologists who work in co therapy.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Meir Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Morris Mosseri, Professor · Department of Cardiology, Meir Medical Center, Israel

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-08-31
Primary Completion
2014-12-31
Completion
2014-12-31

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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