Objective Optimism is prospectively and independently associated with superior cardiac
outcomes, but there has been minimal study of optimism-specific interventions in persons
with cardiovascular illness. We aimed to examine the feasibility and impact of an optimism-
promoting program among patients with heart disease in a randomized controlled trial.
Methods Participants (N= 61) were outpatients, age 35–60, with coronary artery disease
who were randomized to an 8-week in-person group-based optimism training intervention or …

Reports an error in" A randomized trial of an optimism training intervention in patients with
heart disease" by Narges Mohammadi, Alireza Aghayousefi, Gholam Reza Nikrahan, Caitlin
N. Adams, Ahmad Alipour, Masoumeh Sadeghi, Hamidreza Roohafza, Christopher M.
Celano and Jeff C. Huffman (General Hospital Psychiatry, 2018 [Mar-Apr], Vol 51, 46-53). In
the paper “Randomized controlled trial of a well-being intervention in cardiac patients," the
Authors did not acknowledge that the well-being intervention that the authors specifically …