1.Which Factors Unexpectedly Increase Depressive Symptom Severity in Patients at the End of a Cardiac Rehabilitation Program?.
Saeid KOMASI ; Mozhgan SAEIDI ; Nafiseh MONTAZERI ; Masoumali MASOUMI ; Ali SOROUSH ; Parvin EZZATI
Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine 2015;39(6):872-879
OBJECTIVE: To investigate predictors of depressive symptom aggravation at the end of a cardiac rehabilitation (CR) program. METHODS: The design of the study was retrospective. The administrative data were obtained from the database of the CR department of a heart hospital in Iran. The demographic and clinical information of 615 CR patients between January 2000 and January 2010 was analyzed using binary logistic regression analysis. RESULTS: The results showed that 10.7% of the patients completed the CR program with aggravated depressive symptoms. After adjustment for gender, age, and pre-intervention depression score, lower education level (p<0.05) and smoking (p<0.01) were significant predictors of increased depressive symptoms at the end of the program. Our model variables could explain 6% to 13% of the dependent variable variance. CONCLUSION: The results suggest that targeting patients who are less literate or who smoke could allow for taking the required measures to prevent or control depression at the end of a CR program. It is suggested that future studies consider other variables.
Demography
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Depression*
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Education
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Heart
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Heart Diseases
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Humans
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Iran
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Logistic Models
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Rehabilitation*
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Retrospective Studies
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Smoke
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Smoking
2.Sociodemographic Predictors in Failure to Complete Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation.
Behzad HEYDARPOUR ; Mozhgan SAEIDI ; Parvin EZZATI ; Ali SOROUSH ; Saeid KOMASI
Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine 2015;39(6):863-871
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the role of sociodemographic factors in failure to complete outpatient cardiac rehabilitation (CR). METHODS: This was a retrospective study that used information obtained from the database of the cardiac rehabilitation department of a cardiac hospital in Iran. Data from 1,050 CR patients treated at the hospital between January 2001 and January 2013 was analyzed using binary logistic regression analysis. RESULTS: Only 49% of the patients completed the CR program. After adjustment for baseline variables, it was found that the following were significantly associated with failure to complete the CR program: illiteracy (p<0.001), old age (p<0.001), being an employee or retired (p<0.05), having a low capacity for exercise (p<0.001), depression (p<0.001), low anxiety (p<0.001), and not currently being a smoker (p<0.001). CONCLUSION: Paying more attention to older patients with low literacy levels and limited exercise capacity, who are employed or retired, and who are not current smokers, and taking therapeutic measures to control psychological complications such as depression, may be effective in ensuring that patients complete outpatient cardiac rehabilitation.
Anxiety
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Demography
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Depression
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Literacy
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Heart Diseases
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Humans
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Iran
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Logistic Models
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Outpatients*
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Patient Dropouts
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Rehabilitation*
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Retrospective Studies
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Sociology