NCT03706001

Efficacy of Psychotherapy for Improving Quality of Life in Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Depression

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Xijing Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A Study to evaluate the efficacy of psychotherapy for easing the cardiac symptoms and improving and quality of life in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy accompanied with depression

Detailed description

This study will use a 8 week parallel group design. 100 patients diagnosed as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy accompanied with depression will be into experimental group and control group. The experimental group received 8 times of psychological treatments for once each week; the control group did not receive any antidepressant treatment. Follow-up assessments will be performed at baseline, week 4 and 8.

Conditions

• Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Psychotherapy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Psychotherapy	Psychotherapy has gained increasing acceptance as a major treatment option for mood disorders.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-10-20
• Primary completion: 2019-09-20
• Completion: 2019-12-31
• First posted: 2018-10-15
• Last updated: 2018-10-15