Perceptions of Patients and Health Professionals Regarding the Experience of Patients With a Hybrid Cardiac Rehabilitation Program.
Pamela Tanguay, Nicole Marquis, Alexandra Ethier and 6 others
PMID 41972946WHAT IT FOUND
Patients mainly described the hybrid program as convenient and the center-based sessions as safe and confidence-building, while home exercise and phone follow-ups were often overlooked or mixed.
Nurses should make home sessions and call purposes explicit.
Key findings
01Patients mainly talked about the center-based part of the hybrid program and did not describe home exercise as a formal part of it.
02Patients described center-based sessions as helping them feel safe and regain confidence in physical activity through vital-sign monitoring and professional supervision.
03Telephone follow-ups were inconsistent: some patients did not recall receiving them, and professionals found them impersonal and ineffective for relationships.
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What it does not show
Only patients who completed the hybrid program were interviewed, so views from people who stopped early were missing. Patients did not know the structure of traditional center-based cardiac rehabilitation, so they could not directly compare the two models. Home-session logbook data were not available, so the study could not check how much exercise patients actually did at home. Health professionals may have preferred one model, which could bias their impressions. The interview guide was not designed to test every component of the hybrid program separately.
Declared interests
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read these themes as proof that hybrid cardiac rehabilitation improves clinical outcomes or that home exercise was effective. The study interviewed people who had completed the program and did not compare hybrid care with center-based care or measure health outcomes.