June 1, 2003International Journal of Rehabilitation Research
Fear of exercise and health-related quality of life in patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator
Why the study?
Is fear of exercise associated with health-related quality of life in patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator?
Structured PICO
Is fear of exercise associated with health-related quality of life in patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator?
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Population
89 patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) from the University Hospital in Groningen, the Netherlands
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Comparator
Normal healthy people
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Outcome
Health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) measured by Rand-36 and QoLMI-DLV, and fear of exercise measured by TSK-DV and FABQ-DVpatient reported
In patients with an ICD, fear of exercise is negatively associated with health-related quality of life, highlighting the need to identify and intervene in patients with kinesiophobia.
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Implication
Fear of exercise was associated with worse HR-QoL in ICD patients; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective trials before clinical adoption.
Cite This Study
Ittersum et al. (2003) studied this question.