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Clinical Rehabilitation, Vol. 16, No. 3, 338-342 (2002)
DOI: 10.1191/0269215502cr500oa
© 2002 SAGE Publications

Functional recovery after cardiac rehabilitation

C D van Houten

E LD Angenot

Rehabilitation Centre Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

G J Lankhorst

VU University Medical Center, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

W Devillé

VU University Medical Center, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

H Beckerman

VU University Medical Center, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Objective: To study the effect of a cardiac rehabilitation programme based on the guidelines of the Dutch Heart Association (DHA).

Design: Randomized controlled trial with a waiting list control group.

Setting: Outpatient clinic of Rehabilitation Centre Amsterdam.

Subjects: Forty patients with a first myocardial infarction.

Interventions: Immediately after randomization the experimental group started the rehabilitation programme; the waiting list control group started after six weeks. No other type of treatment was given during the waiting period.

Main outcome measures: Physical recovery, tested by means of an exercise test on a bicycle ergometer, and feelings of well-being (MPVH-W), handicap (MPVH-H) and distress (MPVH-D), tested using a Dutch questionnaire: the Medische Psychologische Vragenlijst voor Hartpatiënten, MPVH (medical psychological questionnaire for cardiac patients).

Results: The adjusted treatment effects of the cardiac rehabilitation programme were 4.72% on the exercise test, 3.43 points on MPVH-W, –1.93 points on MPVH-H, and 0.12 points on MPVH-D. These effects were not statistically significant.

Conclusion: Changes after a cardiac rehabilitation programme are relatively small, but are found in both the physical and the psychosocial domain.


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