Cardiac Rehabilitation Facebook Intervention: Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The adherence to cardiac rehabilitation is low. Social media has been used to improve motivation and cardiac rehabilitation completion, but the authors did not find Facebook interventions for these purposes in the literature.

Objective

The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Facebook Intervention (Chat) for affecting changes in exercise motivation and need satisfaction and adherence to cardiac rehabilitation.

Methods

The Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire-3 and Psychological Need Satisfaction for Exercise were used to measure motivation and need satisfaction (competence, autonomy, and relatedness) before and after the Chat intervention. To support need satisfaction, the intervention included educ

SUBMITTER: Siegmund LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10334713 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature