Key result
High social support in cardiac rehabilitation exercise maintainers was associated with significantly greater self-efficacy and physical health-related quality of life than moderate support (p<.01).
Why the study?
Does high social support improve self-efficacy and health-related quality of life in cardiac rehabilitation maintenance exercise participants compared to moderate social support?
Cross-Sectional (n=64)
Does high social support improve self-efficacy and health-related quality of life in cardiac rehabilitation maintenance exercise participants compared to moderate social support?
p-value: p=<.01
Higher perceived social support is significantly associated with greater task self-efficacy and physical health-related quality of life among patients in cardiac rehabilitation maintenance programs.
High social support links to better outcomes in maintainers; hypothesis-generating and requires randomized confirmation before practice change.
This study examined whether cardiac rehabilitation (CR) maintenance exercise participants who were high and moderate in social support (SS) differed in their types of self‐efficacy and health‐related quality of life, and whether SS was related to self‐efficacy. Measures of SS, self‐efficacy (i.e., walking, scheduling, in‐class efficacy), and health‐related quality of life (HRQL) were administered to 64 CR maintenance exercise participants. A one‐way, between‐groups MANOVA was significant ( p < .01), indicating that CR participants higher in SS reported significantly greater self‐efficacy and physical HRQL than did their moderate counterparts. In addition, social support predicted significant variance in task self‐efficacy. The findings suggest that differential perceptions of SS are related to differences in walking, in‐class and scheduling self‐efficacy, and the physical component of HRQL among CR exercise maintainers.
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Woodgate et al. (2007) conducted a cross-sectional in Cardiac rehabilitation (n=64). High social support vs. Moderate social support was evaluated on Self-efficacy and health-related quality of life (p=<.01). High social support in cardiac rehabilitation exercise maintainers was associated with significantly greater self-efficacy and physical health-related quality of life than moderate support (p<.01).
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