Optimizing Quality of Life by Improved Patient Expectation Following Atrial Fibrillation Catheter Ablation

Optimizing Quality of Life by Improved Patient Expectation Following Atrial Fibrillation Catheter Ablation

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).

Inclusion Criteria:

• symptomatic atrial fibrillation
• indication for pulmonary vein isolation
• sufficient command of the German language

Exclusion Criteria:

• age <18 years
• permanent atrial fibrillation
• presence of psychiatric disorders which impair the study participitatin
• presence of another medical condiction which influences quality of life stronger than the cardiac condition
• atrial fibrillation induced by intoxication, medicamentation or infection
• inability to grap the course of the study