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Optimizing Quality of Life by Improved Patient Expectation Following Atrial Fibrillation Catheter Ablation
Sponsor: Evangelical Hospital Düsseldorf
Summary
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).
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
60
Start Date
2022-06-09
Completion Date
2027-12
Last Updated
2026-04-28
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Expectation optimization
A short (2-5 min) verbal intervention will be createad individually based on the expectation of the patient towards the procedure.
Locations (2)
Evangelic Hospital Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westfalia, Germany
Westdeutsches Herz- und Gefäßzentrum
Essen, Germany