Key result
Home-based secondary prevention programs significantly reduced anxiety compared with usual care or center-based cardiac rehabilitation (SMD -0.13; 95% CI -0.20 to -0.06; P<.001).
Why the study?
Do home-based secondary prevention programs reduce anxiety in patients with coronary artery disease?
Meta-Analysis
Do home-based secondary prevention programs reduce anxiety in patients with coronary artery disease?
Standardized Mean Difference: -0.13 (95% CI -0.2–-0.06)
p-value: p=< .001
Home-based secondary prevention programs provide a small but significant reduction in anxiety for patients with coronary artery disease.
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Supports modest anxiety reduction via home-based programs in CAD; extends evidence but low-moderate quality and heterogeneity warrant further RCTs.
McClure et al. (2013) conducted a meta-analysis in Coronary artery disease (CAD). Home-based secondary prevention programs vs. Usual care or center-based cardiac rehabilitation was evaluated on Anxiety reduction (SMD -0.13, 95% CI -0.20 to -0.06, p=< .001). Home-based secondary prevention programs significantly reduced anxiety compared with usual care or center-based cardiac rehabilitation (SMD -0.13; 95% CI -0.20 to -0.06; P<.001).
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