- Title
- Feasibility of Integrating MEditatioN inTO heaRt Disease (the MENTOR Study): A Phase II Randomized Controlled Trial
- Creator
- Rao, Angela; Zecchin, Robert; Newton, Phillip J.; Read, Scott A.; Phillips, Jane L.; DiGiacomo, Michelle; Chang, Sungwon; Denniss, Alan Robert; Hickman, Louise D.
- Relation
- Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing Vol. 38, Issue 5, p. 492-510
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JCN.0000000000000997
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- Background: Comorbid depression and/or anxiety symptoms occur in 25% of patients attending cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs and are associated with poorer prognosis. There is a need to evaluate psychological interventions, including meditation, that have potential to improve psychological health in CR programs. Aims: The aim of this study was to determine the feasibility and acceptability of integrating a meditation intervention into an existing Australian CR program for the reduction of depression and anxiety symptoms. Methods: This was a mixed-methods feasibility randomized controlled trial. Thirty-one patients with CVD and, at a minimum, mild depression and/or anxiety symptoms were randomized to meditation and standard CR or to standard CR alone. A 16-minute guided group meditation was delivered face-to-face once a week for 6 weeks, with daily self-guided meditation practice between sessions. Feasibility outcomes included screening, recruitment, and retention. Semistructured interviews of patients' (n = 10) and health professionals' (n = 18) perspectives of intervention participation and delivery were undertaken to assess acceptability. Between-group differences in depression, anxiety, stress, self-efficacy for mindfulness, and health status at 6 and 12 weeks were also assessed. Results and Conclusion: Meditation was considered feasible, with 83% (12/15) of the intervention group completing an average of 3.13 (SD, 2.56) out of 6 group meditation sessions and 5.28 (SD, 8.50) self-guided sessions. Meditation was considered acceptable by patients, clinicians, and health managers. Between-group differences in the number of CR sessions completed favored the intervention group in per-protocol analyses (intervention group vs control group, 12 vs 9 sessions; P = .014), which suggests that meditation may be useful to improve patients' adherence to exercise-based CR program.
- Subject
- anxiety; cardiac rehabilitation; cardiovascular disease; depression; meditation; self-efficacy
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1488826
- Identifier
- uon:52543
- Identifier
- ISSN:0889-4655
- Language
- eng
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