NCT00769366

Randomized, Controlled Study on Short-term Psychotherapy After Acute Myocardial Infarction

Randomized, Controlled Study on Short-term Psychotherapy After Acute Myocardial Infarction: The Step-in-AMI Trial (Short TErm Psychotherapy IN Acute Myocardial Infarction)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 101 (actual)
• Sponsor: San Filippo Neri General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Psychosocial factors play an important role in the pathophysiology of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), but it is not known if psychotherapy is beneficial after the contemporary treatment of AMI consisting of medical and interventional therapy. The investigators have designed a randomized, controlled study to assess the effects of short-term psychotherapy (STP) on the clinical outcomes of patients who have undergone an emergency percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) post-AMI.

Conditions

• Acute Myocardial Infarction

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Psychotherapy	humanistic-existential psychotherapy conducted in individual and group meetings
DRUG	Medical therapy	Optimal medical therapy after Acute myocardial infarction

Timeline

• Start date: 2005-06-02
• Primary completion: 2011-11-01
• Completion: 2016-11-01
• First posted: 2008-10-09
• Last updated: 2017-05-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy