The patient education strategy "learning and coping" improves adherence to cardiac rehabilitation in primary healthcare settings: a pragmatic cluster-controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adherence and completion of programmes in educational and physical exercise sessions is essential in cardiac rehabilitation (CR) to obtain the known benefits on morbidity, mortality, risk factors, lifestyle, and quality of life. The patient education strategy "Learning and Coping" (LC) has been reported to positively impact adherence and completion in a hospital setting. It is unknown if LC has impact on adherence in primary healthcare settings, and whether LC improves self-management. The aim of this pragmatic primary healthcare-based study was to examine whether patients attending CR based on LC had a better adherence to patient education and physical exercise, higher program completion rate, and better self-management compared to patients attending CR based on a consu

SUBMITTER: Pedersen CG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9361528 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature