FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY AND ADHERENCE PATTERNS IN CORONARY PATIENTS PARTICIPATING IN SUPERVISED VERSUS UNSUPERVISED EXERCISE TRAINING (SUPERVISED EXERCISE).
Contributors: University of Florida.
Published: 1990
Number of pages: 126
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Health Sciences, Rehabilitation and Therapy.
Description: The objective of this research was to evaluate the relationship between type of exercise training program and functional improvement and adherence in cardiac patients. The study was focused on comparing supervised exercise training with unsupervised training in patients soon after myocardial infarction or coronary artery bypass graft surgery. A sample of 73 subjects was assigned to one of four programs: supervised, unsupervised home-video, unsupervised home-walk with telephone contact, and unsupervised home-walk which acted as a control. Each subject had a pre-exercise training treadmill test two to four weeks post-discharge followed by a post-exercise training test 8 to 12 weeks later. The research design investigated the effectiveness of each program utilizing ANOVA, MANOVA, and correlational analysis to determine changes in functional capacity and adherence patterns over the 8 to 12 week training period. The findings suggest that participants in a supervised program improve more significantly and have higher adherence patterns than participants in unsupervised programs. However, participants in unsupervised programs improved significantly and reported satisfaction with their training programs as well, validating the usefulness of alternate methods of cardiac rehabilitation.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-10, Section: B, page: 4781.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, 1990.

School code: 0070.