Journal article
Neurocognitive functioning and improvement in quality of life following participation in cardiac rehabilitation
The American journal of cardiology, Vol.83(9), pp.1374-1378
1999
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(99)00103-4
PMID: 10235098
Abstract
We investigated the relationship between neurocognitive functioning and quality of life/self-perceived health status (QOL) among cardiac rehabilitation (CR) patients to determine whether level of neurocognitive functioning is related to baseline QOL and improvement following CR. CR patients (n = 35) were given a neurocognitive screening before participation in CR, and also completed a behavioral inventory (SF-36) before and after CR to measure QOL associated with medical illness. At baseline, CR patients obtained relatively low SF-36 scores compared with published norms, and as reported previously, demonstrated inferior neurocognitive performance compared with healthy controls. Furthermore, neurocognitive performance was strongly positively correlated to SF-36 scores. Significant improvements were evident on many of the SF-36 subscales following rehabilitation. These improvements were relatively greater among SF-36 indexes of physical health status compared with SF-36 indexes of mental health status. Baseline neurocognitive performance also correlated strongly to the degree of improvement in SF-36 scores following rehabilitation. These findings indicate a strong relationship between baseline neurocognitive functioning and QOL before CR, and the degree to which QOL improves following this intervention.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Neurocognitive functioning and improvement in quality of life following participation in cardiac rehabilitation
- Creators
- Ronald A Cohen - Miriam Hospital, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island., USADavid J Moser - Miriam Hospital, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island., USAMatthew M Clark - Miriam Hospital, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island., USAMark S Aloia - Miriam Hospital, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island., USAByron R Cargill - Miriam Hospital, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island., USASandra Stefanik - Miriam Hospital, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island., USAAnna Albrecht - Miriam Hospital, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island., USAPeter Tilkemeier - Miriam Hospital, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island., USADaniel E Forman - Miriam Hospital, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island., USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The American journal of cardiology, Vol.83(9), pp.1374-1378
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0002-9149(99)00103-4
- PMID
- 10235098
- ISSN
- 0002-9149
- eISSN
- 1879-1913
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1999
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Medicine Administration
- Record Identifier
- 9984003954202771
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