NCT01270568

Mind-body Interventions in Cardiac Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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

Type	Name	Description
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

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-03-01
• Primary completion: 2011-01-01
• Completion: 2011-01-01
• First posted: 2011-01-05
• Last updated: 2011-01-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States