Trial reportFamily process2014
The partners for life program: a couples approach to cardiac risk reduction.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 70 citations in OpenAlex.
- What Do We Know About Young Adult Cardiac Patients' Experience? A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
- Outcomes from Partner2Lose: a randomized controlled trial to evaluate 24-month weight loss in a partner-assisted intervention.BMC public health · 2024Trial
- Effect of a Telephone Health Coaching Intervention on Hypertension Control in Young Adults: The MyHEART Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2023Trial
- Coparenting-focused preventive intervention reduces postnatal maternal BMI and buffers impact of cortisol.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2022Trial
- Within-partner concordance of hypertension and overweight/obesity among sexual minority couples.Annals of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Healing Hearts Together - an emotionally focused intervention for couples after a cardiac event: a randomized controlled trial protocol.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- A quasi-experimental study on couple-based exercise program improving cardiac rehabilitation exercise compliance in post-PCI patients.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2024Article
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- Couple-based lifestyle intervention to prevent type 2 diabetes: protocol for a randomised pilot trial.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Psychological couple-oriented interventions for patients with heart disease and their partners: a scoping review and guidelines for future interventions.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Spousal concordance of ideal cardiovascular health metrics: findings from the 2014-2019 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.Clinical hypertension · 2022Article
- Couples-based interventions to promote PAP adherence among older adults: a qualitative study of patients, partners, and providers.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2022Article
- Partner and Relationship Predictors of Longitudinal Physical Activity Trajectories Among Individuals with Osteoarthritis Using Latent Class Growth Analysis.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2022Observational
- Intimate Relationships and Coronary Heart Disease: Implications for Risk, Prevention, and Patient Management.Current cardiology reports · 2022Review
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- Rationale and study design of the MyHEART study: A young adult hypertension self-management randomized controlled trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2019Article
- Ideal Cardiovascular Health Metrics in Couples: A Community-Based Study.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2018Article
- Couples' Experiences With Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors After Cardiac Rehabilitation.Journal of cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and prevention · 2018Article
- Understanding leisure-time physical activity: Voices of people with MS who have moderate-to-severe disability and their family caregivers.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2018Article
- A Preliminary Examination of the Effects of Pretreatment Relationship Satisfaction on Treatment Outcomes in Cognitive-Behavioral Conjoint Therapy for PTSD.Couple & family psychology · 2015Article
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6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Morbidity and mortality are reliably lower for the married compared with the unmarried across a variety of illnesses. What is less well understood is how a couple uses their relationship for recommended lifestyle changes associated with decreased risk for illness. Partners for Life compared a patient and partner approach to behavior change with a patient only approach on such factors as exercise, nutrition, and medication adherence. Ninety-three patients and their spouses/partners consented to participate (26% of those eligible) and were randomized into either the individual or couples condition. However, only 80 couples, distributed across conditions, contributed data to the analyses, due to missing data and missing data points. For exercise, there was a significant effect of couples treatment on the increase in activity and a significant effect of couples treatment on the acceleration of treatment over time. In addition, there was an interaction between marital satisfaction and treatment condition such that patients who reported higher levels of marital distress in the individuals condition did not maintain their physical activity gains by the end of treatment, while both distressed and nondistressed patients in the couples treatment exhibited accelerating gains throughout treatment. In terms of medication adherence, patients in the couples treatment exhibited virtually no change in medication adherence over time, while patients in the individuals treatment showed a 9% relative decrease across time. There were no condition or time effects for nutritional outcomes. Finally, there was an interaction between baseline marital satisfaction and treatment condition such that patients in the individuals condition who reported lower levels of initial marital satisfaction showed deterioration in marital satisfaction, while non satisfied patients in the couples treatment showed improvement over time.
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