The heart & mind trial: intervention with cognitive-behavioural therapy in patients with cardiac disease and anxiety: randomised controlled trial protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Patients with cardiac disease often experience anxiety (prevalence about 20%-25%) and have a doubled mortality risk when suffering from anxiety compared with patients without anxiety. This calls for interventions aiming to reduce anxiety.

Methods and analysis

The Heart & Mind Trial consists of three parts: (1) screening of all hospitalised and outpatient cardiac patients with arrhythmia, heart failure or ischaemic heart disease at four university hospitals in Denmark using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale-Anxiety subscale (HADS-A); Patients scoring ≥8 is invited to participate; (2) Assessment of the type of anxiety by Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and (3) Randomised clinical superiority trial wit

SUBMITTER: Berg SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8647551 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature