Hemodynamic Responses of Stable Ischemic Heart Disease Patients to a Comedy Session

Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Status: Completed

Conditions: Ischaemic Heart Disease

Treatments: Other: Group Control; Other: Group Treatment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02849067

14-0598

Details and patient eligibility

About

It is known that laughter can bring benefits in terms of physiological and psychological parameters, in addition to improving the individual's quality of life. However, the literature is still scarce as to the existence of studies investigating the effects of a comedy film specifically in hemodynamics.

Full description

Objective: To evaluate the effect of a comedy film session on the cardiac index, Systemic Vascular Resistance and Vascular Resistance Index Systemic in stable ischemic heart disease patients.

Method: Randomized Clinical Trial. Patients will be coming from Ischemic Heart Disease clinic at the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), all in regular monitoring.

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Ages between 40 and 80 years
• Both female and male
• Diagnosis of ischemic heart disease by cardiac catheterization , with 50% lesion in at least one epicardial vessel

Exclusion criteria

• Participants enrolled in another Randomized Clinical trial
• Autoimmune diseases
• Valvulopathy with mechanical or biological cardiac prosthesis
• Presence of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter
• Left bundle branch block in the electrocardiogram (ECG) of 12 derivations
• Severe lung disease
• Depression or Bipolar Disorder
• Atrial Chronic Fibrillation
• Left ventricular dysfunction (ejection fraction <45%)
• Active Infection or neoplasia (not Basal cell carcinoma)
• Chronic Renal Failure
• Illiteracy and inability to understand the consent form

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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24 participants in 2 patient groups

Group Treatment

Experimental group

Description:

Patients in this group will watch a comedy show that will will not exceed 30 minutes. This group will have until five patients.

Treatment:

Other: Group Treatment

Group Control

Other group

Description:

patients in this group will watch a documentary that will not exceed 30 minutes. This will have until five patients

Treatment:

Other: Group Control