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Optimizing Quality of Life by Improved Patient Expectation Following Atrial Fibrillation Catheter Ablation

NCT05557526 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2026-04-28

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Summary

The aim is to investigate whether optimizing patients' expectations towards the interventional treatment of atrial fibrillation (catheter ablation) leads to a lower disease-related impairment of the patients compared to the control group in the first three months after ablation (the so-called blanking period).

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Expectation optimization

A short (2-5 min) verbal intervention will be createad individually based on the expectation of the patient towards the procedure.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital, Essen

    collaborator OTHER

  • Evangelical Hospital Düsseldorf

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-06-09
Primary Completion
2026-12-31
Completion
2027-12-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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Diseases

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