Key result
Stress attributions for cardiac events at the start of cardiac rehabilitation were associated with engaging in healthy behaviors and higher metabolic equivalence levels at the end of the program.
Why the study?
Do causal attributions for cardiac events predict physical and psychological recovery in cardiac rehabilitation patients?
Observational (n=163)
Do causal attributions for cardiac events predict physical and psychological recovery in cardiac rehabilitation patients?
Patients' belief that their cardiac event was caused by stress may motivate them to engage in healthy behaviors, improving physical recovery during cardiac rehabilitation.
May support screening stress attributions in cardiac rehab; hypothesis-generating and requires randomized trials before practice change.
This study examined cardiac rehabilitation (CR) patients' causal attributions for their cardiac events, and used those attributions as predictors of cross‐sectional and prospective health status. Data were collected from 163 participants at the beginning and end of their CR programs. Results showed that patients' attributions can be categorized into controllable ones that are behavioral in nature, uncontrollable ones that are biological in nature, and a separate category for stress‐related causes. Findings showed that stress attributions at the beginning of CR were associated with engaging in healthy behaviors in the last month of CR, which, in turn, were positively associated with metabolic equivalence levels at the end of CR. Results imply a motivational component to believing that cardiac events are caused by stress.
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Bennett et al. (2013) conducted an observational in Cardiac events requiring cardiac rehabilitation (n=163). Causal attributions for cardiac events (stress attributions) was evaluated on Cross-sectional and prospective health status (healthy behaviors and metabolic equivalence levels). Stress attributions for cardiac events at the start of cardiac rehabilitation were associated with engaging in healthy behaviors and higher metabolic equivalence levels at the end of the program.
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