Stress Management and Resiliency Training Following Acute Myocardial Infarction

University of California (UC) Davis

Status: Completed

Conditions: Heart Attack; Cardiovascular Diseases

Treatments: Behavioral: Stress Management and Resiliency Training Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05415735

1787419

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this pilot study is to use total body PET/CT imaging to examine the relationships between stress, amygdala activation, and arterial wall inflammation in participants before and after participating in a multi-modal stress reduction program.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Concurrently enrolled in an observational study of patients who have had an acute myocardial infarction
• Score on PSS-10 of 14 or greater during screening
• Willing and able to access the internet to participate in the online SMART Program

Exclusion criteria

• Poorly controlled physical or mental health condition that would likely interfere with the ability to participate in SMART or ability to undergo PET scan
• Current daily practice of meditation of 10 minutes or more per day

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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10 participants in 1 patient group

SMART Program

Experimental group

Description:

The Stress Management and Resiliency Training (SMART) Program is a multimodal mind-body and cognitive skills-based program that teaches participants a variety of different approaches for reducing their physiologic stress response. The program is delivered virtually (online) for 1.5 hours once a week for 8 weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Stress Management and Resiliency Training Program