Trial reportCirculation2016
Enhancing Cardiac Rehabilitation With Stress Management Training: A Randomized, Clinical Efficacy Trial.
Trial report in Circulation, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 3 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 131 papers, 11 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Enhancing Standard Cardiac Rehabilitation With Stress Management Training in Patients With Heart Disease
OPTIMA: Psychological Distress and the Effect of Intensive Group Based Cognitive Therapy in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Ischemic Heart Disease: A Randomised Controlled Trial Protocol
Effects of Mindfulness Based Therapy on Patients Perception of Illness and Depression in Cardiac Rehabilitation Phase-i
Who cites it
131 citing papers in PubMed, 11 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 250 citations in OpenAlex.
- National Heart Center/Saudi Heart Association 2025 Guidelines for Cardiovascular Diseases Prevention and Risk Assessment.Saudi medical journal · 2026Guideline
- The Influence of eHealth Stress Management Interventions on Psychological Health Parameters in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of stress management interventions on heart rate variability in adults with cardiovascular disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Women's participation in stress management interventions for chronic heart failure: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Psychology, health & medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Psychological and pharmacological interventions for depression in patients with coronary artery disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Effects of psychosocial support interventions on survival in inpatient and outpatient healthcare settings: A meta-analysis of 106 randomized controlled trials.PLoS medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Adults with Cardiovascular Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2020Pooled it
- Additional effects of psychological interventions on subjective and objective outcomes compared with exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation alone in patients with cardiovascular disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of preventive cardiology · 2019Pooled it
- Interventions to promote patient utilisation of cardiac rehabilitation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Psychological interventions for coronary heart disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
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- Impact of a Stress Reduction, Meditation, and Mindfulness Program in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia · 2023Trial
- Effects of cardiac rehabilitation with and without meditation on myocardial blood flow using quantitative positron emission tomography: A pilot study.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2021Trial
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- Randomized Trial of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Cardiac Patients Eligible for Cardiac Rehabilitation.Scientific reports · 2019Trial
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- Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety Among Patients With a Recent Myocardial Infarction: The U-CARE Heart Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2018Trial
- Physical activity and psychosocial function following cardiac rehabilitation: One-year follow-up of the ENHANCED study.General hospital psychiatry · 2017Trial
- Tai Chi Is a Promising Exercise Option for Patients With Coronary Heart Disease Declining Cardiac Rehabilitation.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2017Trial
- Psychological mediators related to clinical outcome in cognitive behavioural therapy for coronary heart disease: A sub-analysis from the SUPRIM trial.European journal of preventive cardiology · 2017Trial
71 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
backgroundCardiac rehabilitation (CR) is the standard of care for patients with coronary heart disease. Despite considerable epidemiological evidence that high stress is associated with worse health outcomes, stress management training (SMT) is not included routinely as a component of CR. METHODS AND
resultsOne hundred fifty-one outpatients with coronary heart disease who were 36 to 84 years of age were randomized to 12 weeks of comprehensive CR or comprehensive CR combined with SMT (CR+SMT), with assessments of stress and coronary heart disease biomarkers obtained before and after treatment. A matched sample of CR-eligible patients who did not receive CR made up the no-CR comparison group. All participants were followed up for up to 5.3 years (median, 3.2 years) for clinical events. Patients randomized to CR+SMT exhibited greater reductions in composite stress levels compared with those randomized to CR alone (P=0.022), an effect that was driven primarily by improvements in anxiety, distress, and perceived stress. Both CR groups achieved significant, and comparable, improvements in coronary heart disease biomarkers. Participants in the CR+SMT group exhibited lower rates of clinical events compared with those in the CR-alone group (18% versus 33%; hazard ratio=0.49; 95% confidence interval, 0.25-0.95; P=0.035), and both CR groups had lower event rates compared with the no-CR group (47%; hazard ratio=0.44; 95% confidence interval, 0.27-0.71; P<0.001).
conclusionsCR enhanced by SMT produced significant reductions in stress and greater improvements in medical outcomes compared with standard CR. Our findings indicate that SMT may provide incremental benefit when combined with comprehensive CR and suggest that SMT should be incorporated routinely into CR. CLINICAL
trial registrationURL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT00981253.
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