SCAD Recovery
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Recovery from Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection: design and development of a recovery intervention and the development of a Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROM) questionnaire.
IRAS ID
328660
Contact name
Lis Neubeck
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Edinburgh Napier University
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 2 months, 30 days
Research summary
Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is increasingly recognised as an important cause of myocardial infarction (MI). Despite this, there are no recovery programmes tailored for SCAD survivors, who are mainly women, and typically younger than most Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) survivors. Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR) in the UK is often a nurse-led intervention to improve recovery from cardiac events, but the participants are mostly male and aged in the mid-60s. This profile means that SCAD survivors do not receive tailored, age or sex appropriate support, nor is the advice relevant to SCAD. Consequently, there is an urgent need to develop and evaluate SCAD recovery programmes. The overall objective of this project is to design a safe and effective recovery programme for SCAD survivors that can be quickly scaled to be offered to all survivors of SCAD in the UK. Concurrently, we aim to work with this population to develop and test a psychometrically valid patient reported outcome measure for SCAD.
REC name
West Midlands - South Birmingham Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
23/WM/0169
Date of REC Opinion
2 Aug 2023
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion