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| Name | Class |
|---|---|
| VieCuri Medical Centre | OTHER |
| The Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital | OTHER |
| Maastricht University Medical Center | OTHER |
| Maasstad Hospital |
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For women that experience angina symptoms with underlying vascular spasm as the cause, stress has an aggravating role. Coping with stress is therefore included as an important pillar in dealing with this chronic disease, see the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EACPI) consensus document on INOCA. In practice, stress management focuses on informing and identifying the role stress plays in their lives. A potential stress management tool: "Wavy" aims to help users manage stress more consciously through biofeedback. This research focuses on the effectiveness of stress management applications. The hypothesis is that the app will help to avoid the trigger stress as much as possible and thus reduce the burden of disease.
Rationale: The majority of women with angina and non-obstructive coronary arteries (INOCA) do have underlying epicardial or microvascular coronary vasospasms as revealed by invasive vasomotor testing. It is well known that stress is one of the important triggers of coronary vasospasms, therefore, stress reduction is of importance to this population. 'Wavy' is a smartphone application that estimates stress levels through a collection of physiological data by smartwatches and offers music guided relaxation through bio-feedback when these levels appear too high. It is hypothesized that the use of 'Wavy' will result in less stress and consequently fewer complaints of angina pectoris.
Objective: This study sets out to assess whether incorporating Wavy in daily life results in a better quality of life as measured through the primary outcome: visual analogue scale on pain (VAS) score and secondary outcomes: perceived stress score (PSS-10) quality of life (SF-36), heart rate variability (HRV) based stress levels, and angina frequency.
Study design: Patients will be enrolled in a single-arm placebo-controlled multicentre trial, consisting of 4 weeks placebo followed by 4 weeks intervention.
Study population: The study population will consist out of 250 women from 5 cardiology centres, aged between 18 and 70, who are diagnosed with INOCA with coronary vasomotor disorders.
Intervention: The smartphone application ''Wavy'' offers music guided relaxation when stress levels, as measured by biological parameters through the wearable, are too high.
Main study parameters/endpoints: The primary study parameter is the difference between the VAS scores before and after the intervention period.
Nature and extent of the burden and risks associated with participation, benefit and group relatedness: To ensure a low burden for the participants, the trial will be executed digitally, meaning that, aside from delivering the wearables, all contact will be through online and phone contact. Over the course of approximately two months, the participant will be asked to watch an introduction video series, explaining the proper usage of Wavy Assistant, also they will be asked to wear a smartwatch, and to use a music guided relaxation for approximately 10 minutes at a time. In addition, the participants will be asked to fill out three questionnaires twice, taking approximately ninety minutes in total. Overall, the risk of the intervention is negligible. The potential benefit of the intervention is a reduction of symptoms of angina in patients through music guided relaxation, which is a natural, non-medical therapy without risk of side effects.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control vs intervention | Experimental | Each subject will take part in a four-week control period, followed by a four-week intervention period. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Wavy stress application | Behavioral | The intervention consists of the application named Wavy. Wavy uses artificial intelligence and the user's feedback to detect stress increasingly more efficient over time. This provides not only real-time feedback on an individual's stress level but also helps the patient to calm down using music guided relaxation. It does so with a music filter, allowing the participant to listen to music where the stress level determines the quality of the music. Thus, relaxing is rewarded by improving the experience. In this process, implicit learning is used to establish a habit of getting better at recognising increased stress levels and getting familiar with reducing stress levels more and more effectively. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| seattle angina questionnaire | A valid, reproducible, responsive instrument for assessing disease-specific health status among patients with coronary artery disease | 10 weeks |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| VAS score on pain | Visual scale of 1-100 on pain | 10 weeks |
| Heart rate variability | Semi semi-continuous 30 second heart rate variabillity (hrv) derived from photoplethysmogram (PPG) signal measurements each 15 minutes |
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Female participants are recruited from the cardiology outpatient clinics at the department of cardiology Radboudumc, Maastricht UMC, Catharina Hospital Eindhoven, St. Elisabeth Hospital Tilburg, Maasstad Hospital and in VieCuri MC, Venlo. All participants have must meet
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Excluded criteria:
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Suzette Elias-Smale, dr. | Radboud University Medical Center | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Radboud universty medical center | Nijmegen | Gelderland | 6525GA | Netherlands | ||
| Maastricht UMC |
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| Catharina Ziekenhuis Eindhoven | OTHER |
| ZonMw: The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development | OTHER |
| Health Holland | OTHER |
| Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research | OTHER_GOV |
A single-arm, controlled, multicentre trial, will be conducted to validate to study objective. The study is divided into five iterative substudies of which the first four are aimed towards improving the application, based on the quantitative data from the smartwatch and the qualitative feedback of the users whilst also validating the recent version through assessing the interim study outcomes.
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| 10 weeks |
| Perceived stress score | PSS-10 questionnaire, validated questionnaire indicating perceived stress | 10 weeks |
| SF-36 | Quality of life questionnaire | 10 weeks |
| Symptom diary | Descriptions and time labeling of experienced symptoms | 10 weeks |
| Maastricht |
| Limburg |
| 6229 HX |
| Netherlands |
| VieCuri | Venlo | Limburg | 5900BX | Netherlands |
| Catharina Hospital | Eindhoven | North Brabant | 5623 EJ | Netherlands |
| Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital | Tilburg | North Brabant | 5042AD | Netherlands |
| Maasstad Hospital | Rotterdam | South Holland | 3079 DZ | Netherlands |
| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D007511 | Ischemia |
| D003329 | Coronary Vasospasm |
| D013035 | Spasm |
| D060050 | Angina, Stable |
| D000788 | Angina Pectoris, Variant |
| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D010335 | Pathologic Processes |
| D013568 | Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms |
| D003327 | Coronary Disease |
| D017202 | Myocardial Ischemia |
| D006331 | Heart Diseases |
| D002318 | Cardiovascular Diseases |
| D014652 | Vascular Diseases |
| D020879 | Neuromuscular Manifestations |
| D009461 | Neurologic Manifestations |
| D009422 | Nervous System Diseases |
| D012816 | Signs and Symptoms |
| D000787 | Angina Pectoris |
| D002637 | Chest Pain |
| D010146 | Pain |
| D000789 | Angina, Unstable |
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