An investigation of the benefits of stress management within a cardiac rehabilitation population
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2009
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Research on whether stress management can improve clinical outcomes for patients in cardiac rehabilitation (CR) has yielded equivocal findings. The present investigation retrospectively examined the incremental impact of exercise and stress management (n = 188), relative to exercise only (n = 1,389), on mental and physical health outcomes at 12-weeks in a CR population. Secondary analyses described the association between the change in CR patients' symptoms of depression or anxiety between baseline and 12-weeks and mental and physical health outcomes at one-year. Participation in stress management was uniquely associated with greater reductions in waist circumference and systolic blood pressure for patients with clinical elevations on these measures. Patients with improved depression and anxiety severity had higher mental quality of life scores and patients whose anxiety severity remained unchanged had higher functional capacity at one-year. These findings suggest that stress management may offer additional benefits over and above exercise in CR.
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Stevenson, A. (2009). An investigation of the benefits of stress management within a cardiac rehabilitation population (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/3166