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ArticleJournal of happiness studies2016

A Positive Psychology Intervention for Patients with an Acute Coronary Syndrome: Treatment Development and Proof-of-Concept Trial.

Jeff C Huffman, Rachel A Millstein, Carol A Mastromauro, Shannon V Moore, Christopher M Celano, C Andres Bedoya, Laura Suarez, Julia K Boehm, James L Januzzi

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Article in Journal of happiness studies, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 63 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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63citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
7.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

63 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 100 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jeff C HuffmanDepartment of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street/Blake 11, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Rachel A MillsteinDepartment of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street/Blake 11, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Carol A MastromauroDepartment of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street/Blake 11, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Shannon V MooreDepartment of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street/Blake 11, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Christopher M CelanoDepartment of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street/Blake 11, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
C Andres BedoyaDepartment of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street/Blake 11, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Laura SuarezDepartment of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street/Blake 11, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Julia K BoehmDepartment of Psychology, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA.
James L JanuzziDepartment of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street/Blake 11, Boston, MA, USA; Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Harvard University · USChapman University · US

Funding

Developing a positive psychology intervention to improve cardiac health behaviorsR01HL113272 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI HUFFMAN, JEFF C · 2013 to 2017
$2.6M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL113272
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Positive psychological constructs are associated with superior outcomes in cardiac patients, but there has been minimal study of positive psychology (PP) interventions in this population. Our objective was to describe the intervention development and pilot testing of an 8-week phone-based PP intervention for patients following an acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Initial intervention development and single-arm proof-of-concept trial, plus comparison of the PP intervention to a subsequently-recruited treatment as usual (TAU) cohort. PP development utilized existing literature, expert input, and qualitative interview data in ACS patients. In the proof-of-concept trial, the primary outcomes were feasibility and acceptability, measured by rates of exercise completion and participant ratings of exercise ease/utility. Secondary outcomes were pre-post changes in psychological outcomes and TAU comparisons, measured using effect sizes (Cohen's

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InterventionMental healthMyocardial infarctionOptimismPositive affectUnstable angina

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PMID28082831
PMCPMC5222616
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