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Summary: Recognizing and giving thanks for the positive aspects of life can result
in improved mental, and ultimately physical, health in patients with
asymptomatic heart failure, according to new research.
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ecognizing and giving thanks for the positive aspects of life can
result in improved mental, and ultimately physical, health in patients
with asymptomatic heart failure, according to research published by
the American Psychological Association.
"We found that more gratitude in these patients was
associated with better mood, better sleep, less fatigue
and lower levels of inflammatory biomarkers related to
cardiac health," said lead author Paul J. Mills, PhD,
professor of family medicine and public health at the
University of California, San Diego. The study was
published in the journal Spirituality in Clinical Practice.
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Gratitude is part of a wider outlook on life that involves
noticing and appreciating the positive aspects of life. It
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can be attributed to an external source (e.g., a pet),
another person or a non-human (e.g., God). It is also
commonly an aspect of spirituality, said Mills. Because
previous research has shown that people who considered themselves more spiritual
had greater overall well-being, including physical health, Mills and his colleagues
examined the role of both spirituality and gratitude on potential health markers in
patients.
The study involved 186 men and women who had been diagnosed with asymptomatic
(Stage B) heart failure for at least three months. Stage B consists of patients who have
developed structural heart disease (e.g., have had a heart attack that damaged the
heart) but do not show symptoms of heart failure (e.g., shortness of breath or fatigue).
This stage is an important therapeutic window for halting disease progression and
improving quality of life since Stage B patients are at high risk of progressing to
symptomatic (Stage C) heart failure, where risk of death is five times higher, according
to Mills.
Using standard psychological tests, the researchers obtained scores for gratitude and
spiritual well-being. They then compared those scores with the patients' scores for
depressive symptom severity, sleep quality, fatigue, self-efficacy (belief in one's ability
to deal with a situation) and inflammatory markers. They found higher gratitude scores
were associated with better mood, higher quality sleep, more self-efficacy and less
inflammation. Inflammation can often worsen heart failure.
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"We found that spiritual well-being was associated with better mood and sleep, but it
was the gratitude aspect of spirituality that accounted for those effects, not spirituality
per se," said Mills.
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To further test their findings, the researchers asked some of the patients to write down
three things for which they were thankful most days of the week for eight weeks. Both
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"We found that those patients who kept gratitude journals for those eight weeks
showed reductions in circulating levels of several important inflammatory biomarkers,
as well as an increase in heart rate variability while they wrote. Improved heart rate
variability is considered a measure of reduced cardiac risk," said Mills.
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"It seems that a more grateful heart is indeed a more healthy heart, and that gratitude
journaling is an easy way to support cardiac health."
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