Cardiac rehabilitation knowledge in patients with coronary heart disease in Baoding city of China: A cross-sectional study.
Yi Zhou, Jing Li, Shaoying Du and 4 others
PMID 31406713WHAT IT FOUND
500 hospitalized patients with coronary heart disease had a cardiac rehabilitation awareness rate of 47.31%; only 10.2% had heard of it, and 6.6% knew optimal medication for secondary prevention.
Key findings
01The total cardiac rehabilitation awareness rate was 47.31%, and only 10.2% of patients had heard of cardiac rehabilitation.
02The lower-awareness items reported were secondary prevention optimum medication (6.6%), cardiac rehabilitation as a treatment (10.2%), blood lipid measurement (15.4%), recommended resting heart rate (20.4%), waist circumference (21%), and potassium-containing food intake (47.4%).
03Older age, lower education, poorer income, rural residence, and agricultural work were associated with lower cardiac rehabilitation knowledge; gender, marital status, insurance type, family history, years since diagnosis, and comorbidities were not.
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What it does not show
The sample was convenience recruited from three hospitals, so it may not represent all patients with coronary heart disease in China. The design was cross-sectional and measured knowledge only, so it cannot show that education changes knowledge, participation, or clinical outcomes. The questionnaire was developed by the research group, so external validation is not reported. Data were collected by research assistants reading questions face-to-face, which may have influenced responses. Participants had to be literate, consented, and well enough to interview, so confused or too-ill patients were excluded.
Declared interests
This work was supported by the Health and Family Planning Commission of Hebei (No. 20140085), and the authors declared no conflict of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that this survey proves a patient-education strategy works. It measured knowledge and associations in hospitalized patients; it did not test an intervention or track cardiac rehabilitation participation or outcomes.