Peer Mentored Approaches For Men And Women With Coronary Artery Disease ("4Steps")
Coronary Artery Disease
About this trial
This is an interventional prevention trial for Coronary Artery Disease
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
For Participants:
- Men and women aged 18-90
- English speaking
- Newly diagnosed with CAD (myocardial infarction [MI], percutaneous coronary intervention [PCI], coronary artery bypass graft [CABG]), acute coronary syndrome, or any imaging test suggestive of CAD).
For Mentors:
(Male mentors will be paired with male participants, and female mentors will be paired with female participants.)
- Men and women aged 18-90
- English speaking
- Established (greater than 1yr prior to study) diagnosis of CAD (myocardial infarction [MI], percutaneous coronary intervention [PCI], coronary artery bypass graft [CABG] acute coronary syndrome, or imaging test suggestive of CAD).
Exclusion Criteria:
For Participants:
- Previously diagnosed CAD (MI, PCI, CABG, acute coronary syndrome or imaging test suggestive of CAD)
- Inability or unwillingness to provide written consent
- Non-English speaking
- Prior formal training and practice of TM
For Mentors:
- Inability or unwillingness to provide written consent
- Non-English speaking
Sites / Locations
- HeartHealth - Weill Cornell Medical College
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
No Intervention
Active Comparator
Active Comparator
Usual Care
Peer Mentor & Transcendental Meditation
Peer Mentor
Subjects will be encouraged to follow-up with their primary physicians. Subjects will be informed that they will be periodically contacted by telephone and/or email by the research team for future assessments.
Subjects will be assigned a peer mentor (a volunteer with CAD). After initial contact, the peer mentor and subject will be encouraged to communicate at whatever frequency or medium they deem most appropriate. This may include speaking by telephone, personal email or meeting in person. Mentors (and subjects if willing) will be asked to keep a log of such contacts, which will be provided to the study staff at interval reassessments. In addition to the peer mentor, subjects will be instructed in transcendental meditation (TM) in the standard manner by a trained TM instructor.
We are no longer recruiting in this arm. Subjects will be assigned a peer mentor (a volunteer with CAD). After initial contact, the peer mentor and subject will be encouraged to communicate at whatever frequency or medium they deem most appropriate. This may include speaking by telephone, personal email or meeting in person. Mentors (and subjects if willing) will be asked to keep a log of such contacts, which will be provided to the study staff at interval reassessments.