Life-style Changes and Mood Profile of Cardiac Patients After an Exercise Rehabilitation Program

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Myocardial infarction patients who regularly attended an exercise rehabilitation program for a minimum period of five months (experimental group) were compared with patients who dropped out of the same program shortly after entry and who remained physically inactive. The results of the British Printing Corporation Life-style questionnaire indicated that although there was no statistically significant difference in the life-style of the two groups before the myocardial infarction, the experimental group's overall postinfarction life-style was significantly healthier (distinctly with regard to the food, exercise, and care factors). Furthermore, the Profile of Mood States (POMS) questionnaire showed that the control group had a greater mood disturbance than the experimental group did at the start of the program. Both groups, however, maintained their mood profile over the experimental period. The present study suggests that regular participation in an exercise rehabilitation program is associated with a healthier postmyocardial infarction life-style and that those patients who are likely to drop out of the program may be prospectively identified by the psychologic characteristics they exhibit on entry into the program.

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