The aim of this trial was to evaluate the Angina Plan (AP), a cognitive‐behavioral nurse‐facilitated self‐help intervention against standard care (SC). A randomized controlled trial of 218 patients hospitalized with angina assessed participants predischarge and 6 months later. Data were collected during a structured interview using validated questionnaires, self‐report, and physiological measurement to assess between group changes in mood, knowledge and misconceptions, cardiovascular risk, symptoms, quality of life, and health service utilization. The intention‐to‐treat (ITT) analysis found no reliable effects on anxiety and depression at 6 months. AP participants reported increased knowledge, less misconceptions, reduced body mass index (BMI), an increase in self‐reported exercise, less functional limitation, and improvements in general health perceptions and social and leisure activities compared to those receiving SC. Sensitivity analysis excluding participants with high baseline depression revealed a statistical significant reduction in depression levels in AP compared to the SC participants. Analysis excluding participants receiving cardiac surgery or angioplasty removed the ITT effects on physical limitation, self‐reported exercise and general health perceptions and the improvements seen in social and leisure activities, while adaptive effects on knowledge, misconceptions and BMI remained and between‐group changes in depression approached significance. Initiating the AP in a secondary care setting for patients with new and existing angina produces similar benefits to those reported in newly diagnosed primary care patients. Further evaluation is required to examine the extent of observed effects in the longer term.

Even though Greece has a disproportionate number of haemodialysis stations for the treatment of end-stage renal disease (ESRD), and a rapidly rising number of patients on dialysis, there has been no study of the lived experience of haemodialysis treatment in Greece. ESRD and dialysis drastically impact patients' everyday life, therefore expectations and desires play a major role in adapting to alterations and restrictions. An understanding of these culturally-influenced expectations and desires is essential for the delivery of holistic nursing care. This study aimed to explore how Greek patients receiving long-term haemodialysis perceived their problems and to describe the impact of haemodialysis on their lives. Using a grounded theory approach, 23 patients with ESRD receiving haemodialysis were purposively recruited from two hospital dialysis centres in Athens, Greece. Data were collected during 2006 by personal interviews. Given a distinctive patient experience of haemodialysis, some insight into their common concerns can facilitate provision of healthcare services that adequately meets their needs. By developing an understanding of the experience of renal illness and therapy for a group of people using dialysis, this study was intended as a contribution towards enabling healthcare professionals to provide more effective support to people who are living with this chronic condition.

Increase of systolic blood pressure and heart rate was present in both groups. The increase in trait anxiety score was driven by intervention group (49.1 T 6.6 to 49.4 T 6.5) while there were no changes in the state anxiety score. The well-being during the echocardiography was comparable (2.9 T 0.7 vs. 2.6 T 0.8). In the intervention group 78% of patients reported music had good or very good effect on their well-being. In the control group, only 29% of patients thought music would improve their well-being during echocardiography. Conclusions: Relaxation music during the echocardiography increases systolic blood pressure and heart rate. Additionally, the music does not does not decrease procedure related state and trait anxiety. 1406 Determinants of depressive symptoms are different for hospitalized HF men and women Ivonne Lesman-Leegte; Tiny Jaarsma; Robbert Sanderman*; Dirk J. van Veldhuisen; on behalf of the Coach investigators;