Ann Rehabil Med.  2015 Dec;39(6):872-879. 10.5535/arm.2015.39.6.872.

Which Factors Unexpectedly Increase Depressive Symptom Severity in Patients at the End of a Cardiac Rehabilitation Program?

• Komasi S
• Saeidi M
• Montazeri
• Masoumi M
• Soroush A
• Ezzati P

• KMID: 2165612
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.5535/arm.2015.39.6.872

Abstract

OBJECTIVE
To investigate predictors of depressive symptom aggravation at the end of a cardiac rehabilitation (CR) program.
METHODS
The design of the study was retrospective. The administrative data were obtained from the database of the CR department of a heart hospital in Iran. The demographic and clinical information of 615 CR patients between January 2000 and January 2010 was analyzed using binary logistic regression analysis.
RESULTS
The results showed that 10.7% of the patients completed the CR program with aggravated depressive symptoms. After adjustment for gender, age, and pre-intervention depression score, lower education level (p<0.05) and smoking (p<0.01) were significant predictors of increased depressive symptoms at the end of the program. Our model variables could explain 6% to 13% of the dependent variable variance.
CONCLUSION
The results suggest that targeting patients who are less literate or who smoke could allow for taking the required measures to prevent or control depression at the end of a CR program. It is suggested that future studies consider other variables.

Keyword

Depression; Patients; Cardiac disease; Rehabilitation; Demographics

MeSH Terms

Demography
Depression*
Education
Heart
Heart Diseases
Humans
Iran
Logistic Models
Rehabilitation*
Retrospective Studies
Smoke
Smoking
Smoke

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  Fig. 1 Comparison of the study participants' depression scores.

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