Randomized controlled trial of mindfulness training as complementary therapy in adults with structural heart disease
Completed
- Conditions
- structural heart disease1002859310007510
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 330
Inclusion Criteria
Adults 18 to 65 years old known to have structural heart disease (congenital heart disease and cardiomyopathy)
Exclusion Criteria
planned operation or percutaneous intervention
inability or unwillingness to give informed consent
inability to understand Dutch, inability to read or write Dutch
no internet acess or no email or no cell phone
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Primary outcome:<br /><br>* exercise tolerance</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Key secondary outcome:<br /><br>* quality-of-life (SF36), using the mental- and physical composite outcome<br /><br>scales<br /><br><br /><br>Other secondary outcomes:<br /><br>* heart rate (a marker of cardiac fitness)<br /><br>* NTproBNP (a biomarker for heart failure)<br /><br>* composite endpoint (all-cause mortality, heart failure, arrythmia, cardiac<br /><br>surgery,<br /><br>percutaneous cardiac intervention, electrical cardioversion)<br /><br>* psychological well-being (anxiety and depression)<br /><br>* Social support (Blumenthal PSSS12)<br /><br>* preference values (societal EuroQol EQ-5D-5L values, and the patients values<br /><br>though the VAS rating scale)<br /><br>* health care costs<br /><br>* related non-health care costs (Tic-P)</p><br>