Key result
Brief mHealth psychological intervention linked to ~0.5-point higher positive well-being vs usual care.
Why the study?
The emotional impact of cardiovascular disease can affect disease prognosis and comorbidity, making emotion regulation important for disease management.
Does a brief mHealth-based psychological intervention in emotion regulation improve positive subjective well-being and self-efficacy in patients with cardiovascular disease?
Observational (n=69)
Non-randomized
No
Does a brief mHealth-based psychological intervention in emotion regulation improve positive subjective well-being and self-efficacy in patients with cardiovascular disease?
A brief, smartphone-delivered psychological intervention on emotion regulation can improve positive affect and chronic disease management self-efficacy in cardiovascular patients.
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May support mHealth emotion regulation for well-being in CVD; leaves open need for randomized confirmation.
The emotional impact that a cardiovascular disease may have on a person’s life can affect the prognosis and comorbidity of the disease. Therefore, emotion regulation is most important for the management of the disease. The aim of this study was to analyze the effectiveness of a brief mHealth psychological intervention in emotion regulation to promote positive subjective well-being in cardiovascular disease patients. The study sample (N = 69, 63.7 ± 11.5 years) was allocated to either the experimental group (n = 34) or control group (n = 35). The intervention consisted of a psychoeducational session in emotion regulation and an mHealth-based intervention for 2 weeks. Positive subjective well-being as a primary outcome and self-efficacy to manage the disease as a secondary outcome were assessed at five time points evaluated over a period of 6 weeks. The experimental group showed higher improvement in positive subjective well-being and self-efficacy for managing the disease compared to the control group over time. The experimental group also improved after the intervention on all outcome measures. Brief mHealth interventions in emotion regulation might be effective for improving positive subjective well-being and self-efficacy to manage the disease in cardiovascular patients.
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Farhane‐Medina et al. (2022) conducted an observational in Cardiovascular Disease (n=69). Brief mHealth-based psychological intervention in emotion regulation vs. Treatment as usual was evaluated on Positive subjective well-being (evaluated via Positive Affect subscale of PANAS) (95% CI [0.14, -0.92], p=0.008). A brief mHealth-based psychological intervention significantly improved positive subjective well-being compared to usual care at post-intervention (mean 4.01 vs 3.48, p=0.008).
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