Eligibility criteria
mental illness, mania, bipolar disorder, heart failure, schizoaffective disorder, unipolar depression, schizophrenia
HEART FAILURE, CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, HEART
We are including patients aged 18 to 65 years who receive rehabilitation at our study center due to cardiovascular disease (ICD-10 I05 to I71 as well as I95 and I97) assigned by the Federal German Pension Insurance or the German Pension Insurance North and for whom mild or moderate mental illness or stress or exhaustion are recorded in the application documents for cardiac rehabilitation. For patients assigned by the Federal German Pension Insurance, mental illness or stress or exhaustion is determined by the socio-medical service of the Federal German Pension Insurance. For patients assigned by the German Pension Insurance North, this is determined by a cardiologist at the study center. The determination of mild or moderate mental illness or stress or exhaustion is performed in advance of the program with only the documents used to claim the rehabilitation.Patients with severe mental illness (schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, mania, severe unipolar depression), severe heart failure (at least stage III according to the classification of the New York Heart Association), and significant limitations with the German language are excluded.