Reassured on a background of vulnerability - people with microvascular angina 12 months after high-intensity physical exercise program.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Physical activity is recommended for patients with coronary microvascular dysfunction, however, avoided due to fear about the heart. The aim is to achieve an understanding of the meaning of physical activity one year after participating in a high-intensity exercise training program.

Method

Twelve people were interviewed using a phenomenological hermeneutic approach.

Results

Four themes were formulated and revealed that one year after participating in high-intensity exercise training participants had an awareness of the meaning of the project, their chest pain and daily life: Being reassured, Daily life's impact on chest pain and continuing doing high-intensity exercise training, A strengthened body and mind, Being part of a group of people with similar problem

SUBMITTER: Roysland IO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9809340 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature