Sarwat Sultan, Shabih Fatima, Frasat Kanwal.
Treating heart patients by enhancing positive emotions through positive psychology intervention.
Pak Heart J Jan ;51(4):303-8.

Objective: To manage the symptoms of coronary heart disease through enhancing positive emotions. Methodology: In this cross sectional study, data was collected from a sample of cardiac patients from Institute of Cardiology Multan from 1st March to 31st May 2017. CHD patients of this sample were selected on the basis of their similar characteristics and equal scores on measures. Then utilizing the experimental approach, CHD patients were randomly assigned to the intervention and control groups. Only CHD patients in intervention group received the positive emotion therapy. Both groups provided data on measures of gratitude, optimism,happiness, and CHD symptoms before and after administering positive emotion intervention to intervention group. In this study independent and paired sample t tests,the analyses of comparison between and within the both groups were employed. Results: A sample of 127 cardiac patients were included in the study. CHD patients were 40. Patients were randomly assigned to the intervention (n=20)and control groups (n=20). Only CHD patients in intervention group received the positive emotion therapy. A significant decrease in CHD symptoms and an increase in positive emotions of patients in intervention group after receiving the positive therapy than before was found. Patients of intervention group were found with low CHD symptoms and high positive emotions after therapy than that of control group. Conclusion: Thus the finding of the present study suggests positive psychology intervention was found effective for enhancing positive emotions in CHD patients.

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