The Clinical Application of a Positive Intervention Program in Patients Who Experienced a Cardiovascular Operation—Pilot Study

The Clinical Application of a Positive Psychology Intervention Program—PEACE in Patients after Left Ventricular Assist Device Implementation

“…Previous studies with PPIs have shown the same results that participants report higher life satisfaction (Müller et al, 2016;Nikrahan et al, 2016). The pilot study of PEACE led to the same results, where patients after the cardiovascular operation reported greater satisfaction with their lives (Kanellakis et al, 2022).…”

“…A meta-analysis confirms the reduction of depression and long-term maintenance after the application of PPIs (Sin & Lyubomirsky, 2009). The PEACE program helps reduce depression and anxiety in patients after a cardiovascular operation, but not stress (Kanellakis et al, 2022). In the pilot study, patients on PEACE reported less anxiety and depression, but the reduction in stress was not statistically significant.…”

“…Positive emotions and stress did not change statistically significantly compared to the pre measures. The participants in the intervention group also had greater benefits for all research variables compared to the participants in the control group, except for positive emotions, where the difference was not statistically significant (Kanellakis et al, 2022).…”

“…Also, participation in PPIs shows that positive emotions increase in patients with heart problems (Nikrahan et al, 2016;Sultan et al, 2018) and in patients with acute coronary syndrome (Duque et al, 2019). PEACE increased positive emotions in LVAD patients, whereas positive emotions did not improve in patients after cardiovascular operation (Kanellakis et al, 2022). One possible explanation can be attributed to the type of heart problem, as well as the fact that the participants in the present study experienced positive emotions from the pre measures, so PEACE may have reinforced them further.…”

“…This intervention was applied to patients after an acute cardiac event and the benefits of the intervention helped in faster and better cardiac function restoration (Huffman et al, 2016). A pilot study was conducted, where PEACE was applied and adapted in Greek to patients after a cardiovascular operation (Kanellakis et al, 2022). The study involved 15 patients aged 45 to 75 years.…”