MBSR on Physiological and Psychological Factors in Patients With HF

Objective The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between mindfulness, resilience, depression and quality of life in patients with heart failure, and the effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction intervention with mobile phone application on subjects with depressive symptoms. Therefore, the research objectives are as follows: 1. To explore the relationship between mindfulness, resilience, depression, and quality of life in patients with heart failure, and to explore the mediating role of positive emotions (mindfulness, resilience). 2. Using a mobile phone app to conduct mindfulness-based stress reduction interventions, to explore the effects of physiological and psychological factors in heart failure patients with depressive symptoms. Methods This study will be conducted in two parts. The first part will be a cross-sectional study. It is planned to be conducted in the cardiology ward or outpatient clinic of a university-affiliated hospital in northern Taiwan between September and December 2023 after the approval of the Human Experiment Ethics Committee. Contact the patients who meet the research conditions, adopt the intentional sampling method, and plan to accept 180 research objects for the questionnaire survey, the collection tools are the basic information of the research objects, mindfulness, resilience, depression, quality of life scale; in the first part, the patients' Health Questionnaire (patient health questionnaire-9, PHQ-9) was used to screen for depressive symptoms, and when the total score ≧ 5 points, they were invited to participate in the second part of the study. The second part plans to include 68 subjects in the study, adopting a single-blind random allocation waiting list design, using the app designed by the researcher to implement the mindfulness-based stress reduction intervention program, which is planned to be carried out for 8 weeks, and since the beginning of the study, the 8th week (After the intervention in the experimental group), and the 16th week (after the intervention in the control group), a total of three research data collections were carried out.

Expected research results The expected results of the first part of the research are that the research subjects with higher mindfulness have less depression, higher resilience, and better quality of life, and the mindfulness of the research subjects can play a mediating role between depression and quality of life; the second part expects the research subjects After receiving the intervention of mindfulness-based stress reduction on the mobile phone application, it can increase their mindfulness, resilience and quality of life, reduce depression, blood pressure, and improve heart rate variability.