Key result
Cardiac rehabilitation nearly doubles depression improvement rates vs standard care after myocardial infarction.
Why the study?
The high prevalence of psychiatric comorbidity among ischemic cardiac patients may compromise their management, and the role of cardiac rehabilitation in improving these symptoms was evaluated.
Does cardiac rehabilitation improve depressive symptoms in male ischemic heart patients with recent myocardial infarction and co-morbid depression?
RCT (n=60)
Open-label
Randomly chosen
No
Does cardiac rehabilitation improve depressive symptoms in male ischemic heart patients with recent myocardial infarction and co-morbid depression?
Cardiac rehabilitation significantly improves depressive symptoms when added to standard therapy in male patients with recent myocardial infarction and co-morbid depression.
Cardiac rehabilitation improves depressive symptoms when added to standard care in men post-MI; extends RCT evidence to psychiatric outcomes.
Introduction: The high prevalence of co-morbidly among cardiac patients may result in undesired con- sequences, which certainly can compromise their managements. Cardiac rehabilitation can be an appropriate adjunctive intervention for amelioration of such morbid processes. Method and Materials: An open comparative study had been performed between a group of ischemic cardiac patients with depressive symptoms, who received cardiac rehabilitation programs, in addition to their standard treatments (n=30), in comparison with a similar group of ischemic patients who had received only the custom- ary managements (n=30). Results: Significantly, more patients in the target group (56.6%) gained benefit from cardiac rehabilitation, in comparison with only 30 % of them in the control group (P<0.05). Conclusion: Cardiac rehabilitation seems to be a valuable method for enhancement of improvement in de- pressed ischemic heart patients.
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Shafti et al. (2018) conducted an RCT in Ischemic heart disease with co-morbid depression (n=60). Cardiac rehabilitation program vs. Standard treatments alone was evaluated on Improvement in depressive symptoms (HRS-D sub-scales) (95% CI 0.015, 0.517, p=<0.03). Cardiac rehabilitation significantly improved depressive symptoms in 56.6% of male patients with recent myocardial infarction compared to 30% of those receiving standard care alone.
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