TY - JOUR
T1 - An examination of psychosocial correlates of exercise tolerance in cardiac rehabilitation participants
AU - Fraser, Shawn N.
AU - Rodgers, Wendy M.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments Shawn N. Fraser was supported by a Doctoral dissertation fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. This research was supported by a grant awarded to Dr. Rodgers from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. The authors thank Bill Daub, Northern Alberta Cardiac Rehabilitation Program for assistance on this study.
PY - 2010/4
Y1 - 2010/4
N2 - factors on an important prognostic indictor among heart patients, exercise tolerance (ET). Prior to attending cardiac rehabilitation (CR), 100 men and 24 women completed a survey assessing social support and self-efficacy for exercise in CR followed by an ET test (ETT) measured in metabolic equivalents (METS) 1 month later. Regression analyses showed that age was the strongest predictor of METS, but that income and the psychosocial variables also significantly impacted on METS. Overall,50% of the variance in METS was explained by the predictor variables. These results show that psychosocialfactors affect the ET of heart patients. Future research should examine the prognostic role of these psychosocial factors as they affect ET as well as their influence on behavioral mechanisms such as exercise.
AB - factors on an important prognostic indictor among heart patients, exercise tolerance (ET). Prior to attending cardiac rehabilitation (CR), 100 men and 24 women completed a survey assessing social support and self-efficacy for exercise in CR followed by an ET test (ETT) measured in metabolic equivalents (METS) 1 month later. Regression analyses showed that age was the strongest predictor of METS, but that income and the psychosocial variables also significantly impacted on METS. Overall,50% of the variance in METS was explained by the predictor variables. These results show that psychosocialfactors affect the ET of heart patients. Future research should examine the prognostic role of these psychosocial factors as they affect ET as well as their influence on behavioral mechanisms such as exercise.
KW - Cardiac rehabilitation
KW - Exercise tolerance
KW - Self-efficacy
KW - Social support
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U2 - 10.1007/s10865-009-9240-5
DO - 10.1007/s10865-009-9240-5
M3 - Journal Article
C2 - 19967399
AN - SCOPUS:77953285091
SN - 0160-7715
VL - 33
SP - 159
EP - 167
JO - Journal of Behavioral Medicine
JF - Journal of Behavioral Medicine
IS - 2
ER -
