Optimizing Quality of Life by Improved Patient Expectation Following Atrial Fibrillation Catheter Ablation

Evangelical Hospital Düsseldorf

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Atrial Fibrillation

Treatments: Other: Expectation optimization

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05557526

IMPROVE AF

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim is to investigate whether optimizing patients' expectations towards the interventional treatment of atrial fibrillation (catheter ablation) leads to a lower disease-related impairment of the patients compared to the control group in the first three months after ablation (the so-called blanking period).

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• symptomatic atrial fibrillation
• indication for pulmonary vein isolation
• sufficient command of the German language

Exclusion criteria

• age <18 years
• permanent atrial fibrillation
• presence of psychiatric disorders which impair the study participitatin
• presence of another medical condiction which influences quality of life stronger than the cardiac condition
• atrial fibrillation induced by intoxication, medicamentation or infection
• inability to grap the course of the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Standard Medical Care Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients with atrial fibrillation receiving catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation without additional intervention.

Optimize Expectation Group

Experimental group

Description:

Patients with atrial fibrillation receiving catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation and an additional verbal intervention to optimize the expectation of the patient towards the procedure.

Treatment:

Other: Expectation optimization