NCT05128981

Internet-delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Following Myocardial Infarction

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 23 (actual)
• Sponsor: Karolinska Institutet · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Myocardial infarction (MI) is one of the leading cause s of health loss globally, representing a large proportion of general disability. Anxiety and depression occur in 20-30 percent of patients following MI and have been identified as risk factors for recurrent adverse cardiac event. The purpose of our this study is to develop and evaluate a disease specific cognitive behavioral therapy (C BT) protocol to reduce cardia anxiety, depression, increase physical inactivity and quality of life (Q oL) in patients following MI

Detailed description

The study will include 30 patients. The MI-specific CBT lasts for 8 weeks and is therapist guided and delivered via internet via a secure digital platform by licensed psychologists expertise in CBT for cardiac disease or final year psychologist under supervision. During treatment, the psychologists will have direct access to a cardiologist assigned to the project and treatments are conducted in close interdisciplinary collaboration to ensure patient safety

Conditions

• Myocardial Infarction
• Cardiac Anxiety
• CBT
• Exposure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	MI-CBT	Education of MI and common reactions, Interoceptive exposure, Exposure in-vivo, Behavioral activation, Relapse prevention

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-10-28
• Primary completion: 2022-12-10
• Completion: 2022-12-10
• First posted: 2021-11-22
• Last updated: 2023-01-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden