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Feasibility of a Virtual Educational Programme for Behaviour Change in Cardiac Patients from a Low-Resource Setting
Patient education is an integral part of recovery from a critical cardiac life event and a core component of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programmes. This study addressed the feasibility of a virtual educational programme for behaviour change in CR patients from a low-resource setting in Brazil. Card...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10252834/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37297538 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20115934 |
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author | dos Santos, Rafaella Zulianello Almeida, Sidnei Scheafer, Andrea Korbes Karsten, Marlus Oh, Paul Benetti, Magnus Ghisi, Gabriela Lima de Melo |
author_facet | dos Santos, Rafaella Zulianello Almeida, Sidnei Scheafer, Andrea Korbes Karsten, Marlus Oh, Paul Benetti, Magnus Ghisi, Gabriela Lima de Melo |
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description | Patient education is an integral part of recovery from a critical cardiac life event and a core component of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programmes. This study addressed the feasibility of a virtual educational programme for behaviour change in CR patients from a low-resource setting in Brazil. Cardiac patients from a CR programme closed due to the pandemic received a 12-week virtual educational intervention (WhatsApp messages and bi-weekly calls from healthcare providers). Acceptability, demand, implementation, practicality, and limited efficacy were tested. Overall, 34 patients and 8 healthcare providers agreed to participate. The intervention was considered practical and acceptable by the participants, who reported a satisfaction median of 9.0 (7.4–10.0)/10 (patients) and 9.8 (9.6–10.0)/10 (providers). The main difficulties in carrying out the intervention activities were related to technology, motivation to self-learning, and a lack of in-person orientation. All the patients reported that the information included in the intervention was aligned with their information needs. The intervention was associated with changes in exercise self-efficacy, sleep quality, depressive symptoms, and performance of high-intensity physical activity. In conclusion, the intervention was considered feasible to educate cardiac patients from a low-resource setting. It should be replicated and expanded to support patients that face barriers to onsite CR participation. Challenges related to technology and self-learning should be addressed. |
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spelling | pubmed-102528342023-06-10 Feasibility of a Virtual Educational Programme for Behaviour Change in Cardiac Patients from a Low-Resource Setting dos Santos, Rafaella Zulianello Almeida, Sidnei Scheafer, Andrea Korbes Karsten, Marlus Oh, Paul Benetti, Magnus Ghisi, Gabriela Lima de Melo Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Patient education is an integral part of recovery from a critical cardiac life event and a core component of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programmes. This study addressed the feasibility of a virtual educational programme for behaviour change in CR patients from a low-resource setting in Brazil. Cardiac patients from a CR programme closed due to the pandemic received a 12-week virtual educational intervention (WhatsApp messages and bi-weekly calls from healthcare providers). Acceptability, demand, implementation, practicality, and limited efficacy were tested. Overall, 34 patients and 8 healthcare providers agreed to participate. The intervention was considered practical and acceptable by the participants, who reported a satisfaction median of 9.0 (7.4–10.0)/10 (patients) and 9.8 (9.6–10.0)/10 (providers). The main difficulties in carrying out the intervention activities were related to technology, motivation to self-learning, and a lack of in-person orientation. All the patients reported that the information included in the intervention was aligned with their information needs. The intervention was associated with changes in exercise self-efficacy, sleep quality, depressive symptoms, and performance of high-intensity physical activity. In conclusion, the intervention was considered feasible to educate cardiac patients from a low-resource setting. It should be replicated and expanded to support patients that face barriers to onsite CR participation. Challenges related to technology and self-learning should be addressed. MDPI 2023-05-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10252834/ /pubmed/37297538 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20115934 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article dos Santos, Rafaella Zulianello Almeida, Sidnei Scheafer, Andrea Korbes Karsten, Marlus Oh, Paul Benetti, Magnus Ghisi, Gabriela Lima de Melo Feasibility of a Virtual Educational Programme for Behaviour Change in Cardiac Patients from a Low-Resource Setting |
title | Feasibility of a Virtual Educational Programme for Behaviour Change in Cardiac Patients from a Low-Resource Setting |
title_full | Feasibility of a Virtual Educational Programme for Behaviour Change in Cardiac Patients from a Low-Resource Setting |
title_fullStr | Feasibility of a Virtual Educational Programme for Behaviour Change in Cardiac Patients from a Low-Resource Setting |
title_full_unstemmed | Feasibility of a Virtual Educational Programme for Behaviour Change in Cardiac Patients from a Low-Resource Setting |
title_short | Feasibility of a Virtual Educational Programme for Behaviour Change in Cardiac Patients from a Low-Resource Setting |
title_sort | feasibility of a virtual educational programme for behaviour change in cardiac patients from a low-resource setting |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10252834/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37297538 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20115934 |
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