Brief Summary

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).

Conditions

• Atrial Fibrillation

Intervention / Treatment

• Other: Expectation optimization

Primary Outcome Measures

• Quality of life (questionaire) (3 months)
  Quality of life of life will be compared between groups and between different time points (before versus 3 months after ablation) with "the atrial fibrillation effect on quality-of-life (AFEQT) questionnaire". An overall AFEQT score ranges from 0 to 100. A score of 0 corresponds to complete disability (or responding "extremely" limited, difficult or bothersome to all questions answered), while a score of 100 corresponds to no disability (or responding "not at all" limited, difficult or bothersome to all questions answered). Therefore, a positive change in score corresponds to improvement in AF symptoms.

Countries

Germany

Locations and Investigators

• Evangelic Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany (Recruiting)
  • Christian Meyer, MD
  • Katharina Scherschel, PhD
  • Christian Meyer, MD (Principal Investigator)
  • Ernan Zhu, MD
  • Fares A Alken, MD
  • Kristin Risse, MD
  • Bahram Wafaisade, MD
  • Ioana Reismann, MD
  • Lars Kutsch, MD
  • Ann-Kathrin Kahle, MD
• Westdeutsches Herz- und Gefäßzentrum, Essen, Germany (Recruiting)
  • Jungen Christiane, MD