Why the study?
Does a prescribed, supervised exercise training program improve psychosocial outcomes in men with prior myocardial infarction?
Population
651 men who suffered at least one myocardial infarction eight weeks to 36 months earlier
Comparison
Prescribed, supervised exercise training program… vs Control subjects
Design
RCT, Randomly assigned
Follow-up
2 years
Authors
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Exercise training confers no psychosocial benefit post-MI; challenges assumptions of broad mental health gains from cardiac rehabilitation.
Does a prescribed, supervised exercise training program improve psychosocial outcomes in men with prior myocardial infarction?
A prescribed, supervised exercise training program did not significantly improve psychosocial outcomes over two years in men with a recent myocardial infarction.
Melvin J. Stern (1982) studied this question.
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