Why the study?
Cardiac rehabilitation improves quality of life but has low participation, prompting the translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and psychometric validation of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Barriers Scale into Greek.
Population
110 post-angioplasty patients with coronary artery disease
Design
Psychometric validation and cross-cultural adaptation study
Follow-up
3-week
Authors
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May enable targeted CR barrier screening in Greek CAD patients; extends CRBS validation to SE Europe and leaves open mitigation trials.
The Greek version of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Barriers Scale is a reliable and valid tool for identifying barriers to cardiac rehabilitation participation among Greek-speaking patients.
Antoniou et al. (2023) studied this question.
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