Enhancing standard cardiac rehabilitation with stress management training: Background, methods, and design for the enhanced study

Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 77-84

  Blumenthal, James A ^a   Wang, Jenny T ^a   Babyak, Michael ^a   Watkins, Lana ^a   Kraus, William ^a   Miller, Paula ^b   Hinderliter, Alan ^b   Sherwood, Andrew ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Cardiac rehabilitation; Depression; Heart rate variability; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART REHABILITATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; ISCHEMIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELAXATION TRAINING; STRESS MANAGEMENT; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PLATELET FUNCTION TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77949443707     PISSN: 19327501     EISSN: 1932751X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HCR.0b013e3181d0c1d3     Document Type: Article

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