• Hippokratia · Oct 2006

    Cardiac rehabilitation effects on quality of life in patients after acute myocardial infarction.

    • H Antonakoudis, K Kifnidis, A Andreadis, E Fluda, Z Konti, N Papagianis, H Stamou, E Anastasopoulou, G Antonakoudis, and L Poulimenos.
    • Department of Cardiology, Asclepeion Hospital, Athens, Greece.
    • Hippokratia. 2006 Oct 1; 10 (4): 176181176-81.

    AbstractAim of this study was to investigate the significance of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) on Health Related Quality of Life ( HRQoL) in post acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients. Methods. A total number off 110 individuals divided in 3 groups was included in the study. Group A consisted of 60 post-AMI pts participating in a CR program. It was a multidisciplinary rehabilitative approach including supervised bike exercise, with parallel education, counselling, psychological and social support, performed 3 times per week for 2 months after AMI . Group B consisted of 40 post-AMI pts not participating in any CR program while the control group C consisted of 10 apparently healthy people. HRQoL was evaluated by the Velasco-Del Barrio questionnaire. Questions on this questionnaire are reffered to 9 categories (health, sleep and rest, emotional behavior, concerns for the future, mobility, social interaction, alertness behavior, communication, work and leisure time). A 5-point scale (1=all of the time, 5=none of the time) and a special (1 to 8) coefficient for each parameter were used for the evaluation of each parameter. The highest score of 220 indicates the poorest QL. Results. Group A pts had better score of HRQoL as compared to Group B (94±3 vs 114±3, p<0.001) and slightly worse than Group C pts (94±4 vs 69±3, p<0.01).Significant difference was found among Group A and B pts regarding the most important evaluated parameters such as symptoms (17±6.8 vs 22±6.5, p<0.001) and social behavior (21±4.2 vs 23±5.5, p<0.0001).Conclusion. It is concluded that participation in a multidisciplinary CR program significantly improves HRQoL in post AMI pts. All these pts must urged to take part in such programs.

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