Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
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2025-12-25 @ 2:04 AM
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2025-12-25 @ 2:04 AM
NCT ID:
NCT00611260
Brief Summary:
This is a trial to examine the effects of meditation on the incidence of ventricular arrhythmias and the psychological profiles in patients with implanted cardiac defibrillators.
We wish to test the following hypotheses:
1. Vipassana meditation reduces the incidence of atrial and ventricular arrhythmias in patients with congestive heart failure.
2. Vipassana meditation improves the psychological profile in patients with CHF. In this study, subjects meeting the inclusion and exclusion criteria will be recruited into the study after obtaining informed consent. The subjects will then be randomized into either an experimental group ( Meditation) or into a control group (usual care).
Detailed Description:
This is a single center, investigator-initiated, randomized, controlled trial to examine the effects of meditation on the incidence of ventricular arrhythmias and the psychological profiles in patients with implanted cardiac defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization devices. The former are used to protect patients against cardiac fibrillation and the latter for synchronizing the contractions of the two ventricles.
Study:
NCT00611260
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT00611260