structural heart disease
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention:
The intervention is a mindfulness training and consists of a structured
standardized online program, which has been used extensively in the normal
population
(http://www.psychologiema
Sponsors
Erasmus MC, Universitair Medisch Centrum Rotterdam
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 99 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Adults 18 to 65 years old known to have structural heart disease (congenital heart disease and cardiomyopathy)
Exclusion criteria
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
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Primary outcome: * exercise tolerance | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Key secondary outcome: * quality-of-life (SF36), using the mental- and physical composite outcome scales Other secondary outcomes: * heart rate (a marker of cardiac fitness) * NTproBNP (a biomarker for heart failure) * composite endpoint (all-cause mortality, heart failure, arrythmia, cardiac surgery, percutaneous cardiac intervention, electrical cardioversion) * psychological well-being (anxiety and depression) * Social support (Blumenthal PSSS12) * preference values (societal EuroQol EQ-5D-5L values, and the patients values though the VAS rating scale) * health care costs * related non-health care costs (Tic-P) | — |
Countries
Netherlands
Outcome results
None listed