Trial reportEuropean journal of cardiovascular nursing2012
The impact on anxiety and perceived control of a short one-on-one nursing intervention designed to decrease treatment seeking delay in people with coronary heart disease.
Trial report in European journal of cardiovascular nursing, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Interventions to increase patient and family involvement in escalation of care for acute life-threatening illness in community health and hospital settings.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Patient education in the management of coronary heart disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
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- Research Hotspots and Frontiers of Patient Delay: A Bibliometric Analysis from 2000 to 2023.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2024Article
- The effect of hydroxy safflower yellow A on coronary heart disease through Bcl-2/Bax and PPAR-γ.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundPatient delay in seeking treatment for acute coronary syndrome symptoms remains a problem. Thus, it is vital to test interventions to improve this behavior, but at the same time it is essential that interventions not increase anxiety. PURPOSE: To determine the impact on anxiety and perceived control of an individual face-to-face education and counseling intervention designed to decrease patient delay in seeking treatment for acute coronary syndrome symptoms.
methodsThis was a multicenter randomized controlled trial of the intervention in which anxiety data were collected at baseline, 3-months and 12-months. A total of 3522 patients with confirmed coronary artery disease were enrolled; data from 2597 patients with anxiety data at all time points are included. The intervention was a 45 min education and counseling session, in which the social, cognitive and emotional responses to acute coronary syndrome symptoms were discussed as were barriers to early treatment seeking. Repeated measures analysis of covariance was used to compare anxiety and perceived control levels across time between the groups controlling for age, gender, ethnicity, education level, and comorbidities.
resultsThere were significant differences in anxiety by group (p = 0.03). Anxiety level was stable in patients in the control group, but decreased across time in the intervention group. Perceived control increased across time in the intervention group and remained unchanged in the control group (p = 0.01).
conclusionInterventions in which cardiac patients directly confront the possibility of an acute cardiac event do not cause anxiety if they provide patients with appropriate strategies for managing symptoms.
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