Key result
Cardiac rehabilitation experiences highlight five patient empowerment themes including personal growth and social support.
Why the study?
Young and middle-aged patients with coronary heart disease who have undergone PCI often find it difficult to participate in secondary cardiac rehabilitation.
Qualitative findings emphasize the importance of individualised empowerment to improve secondary cardiac rehabilitation participation in young and middle-aged post-PCI patients.
Supports individualized empowerment to improve CR participation in young post-PCI patients; hypothesis-generating for targeted interventional trials.
Young and middle-aged patients with coronary heart disease who have undergone percutaneous coronary intervention often find it difficult to participate in secondary cardiac rehabilitation. This study examines patient experiences in cardiac rehabilitation using health empowerment theory as a framework. Purposive sampling was used to collect data through semi-structured interviews, which were analysed using Colaizzi's phenomenological approach. Five themes emerged from the data: (1) Personal growth, (2) Self-acceptance, (3) Life Purpose and motivation, (4) Social support, and (5) Utilisation of social services. The findings are consistent with all dimensions of health empowerment theory. The results of the study emphasise the importance of individualised empowerment and highlight the need to address the requirements for cardiac rehabilitation benefits, providing a new perspective for improving cardiac rehabilitation intervention programmes.
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Ding et al. (2026) studied this question. Patient experiences in cardiac rehabilitation highlight five empowerment themes: personal growth, self-acceptance, life purpose, social support, and utilization of social services.
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