Key result
Short-term multicomponent cardiac rehabilitation in patients of working age demonstrated significant improvements in feasible performance measures including smoking behavior, blood pressure, endurance training load, and subjective health.
Why the study?
The study was conducted to determine immediate performance measures and explore underlying dimensionality for short-term, multicomponent cardiac rehabilitation in clinical routine among patients of working age.
What are suitable immediate performance measures for short-term cardiac rehabilitation in patients of working age?
Observational (n=1,586)
Yes
What are suitable immediate performance measures for short-term cardiac rehabilitation in patients of working age?
A small set of performance measures based on subjective mental health, physical health, and blood pressure can effectively represent the immediate success of comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation in clinical practice.
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Identifies candidate performance measures for short-term CR; leaves open validation in prospective trials before routine use.
To determine immediate performance measures for short-term, multicomponent cardiac rehabilitation (CR) in clinical routine in patients of working age, taking into account cardiovascular risk factors, physical performance, social medicine, and subjective health parameters and to explore the underlying dimensionality. Prospective observational multicenter register study in 12 rehabilitation centers throughout Germany. Comprehensive 3-week CR. Patients (N=1586) ≤65 years of age (mean 53.8±7.3y, 77.1% men) in CR (May 2017-May 2018). Not applicable. Feasibility, defined by data availability for ≥85% of patients (CR admission and discharge), and modifiability based on pre-post comparison (statistical significance, with P value<.01; standardized effect size≥.35; change by ≥5% points in categorical variables). In addition, latent factors were identified using an exploratory factor analysis (EFA). Based on feasibility and modifiability criteria, smoking behavior, lifestyle change behavior, blood pressure, endurance training load, depression in Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), the 5-item World Health Organization Well-Being Index (WHO-5), physical and mental health and pain scale of the indicators of rehabilitation status-24 (IRES-24), and self-assessed health prognosis proved to be suitable performance measures. As a result of the EFA, 2 solid factors were identified: (1) subjective mental health including PHQ-9, WHO-5, mental health (IRES-24), mental quality of life, and anxiety and (2) physical health including physical quality of life, physical health and pain scale of IRES-24, and self-assessed occupational prognosis. A third factor represents the blood pressure. We provide a small set of performance measures, that are essentially based on 3 latent factors (subjective mental health, physical health, blood pressure). These performance measures can represent immediate success of comprehensive CR and be applied easily in clinical practice.
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Zoch-Lesniak et al. (2020) conducted an observational in Cardiovascular diseases (n=1,586). Short-term, multi-component cardiac rehabilitation vs. Pre-rehabilitation baseline was evaluated on Feasibility (data availability ≥85%) and modifiability (statistical significance P<.01, standardized effect size ≥.35, or change ≥5% points) of performance measures. Short-term multicomponent cardiac rehabilitation in patients of working age demonstrated significant improvements in feasible performance measures including smoking behavior, blood pressure, endurance training load, and subjective health.
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