| Uptake of a technology-assisted home-care cardiac rehabilitation program. | |
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PMID: 21401482 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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The prevalence of cardiovascular disease, a major cause of disease burden in Australia and other developed countries, is increasing due to a rapidly ageing population and environmental, biomedical and modifiable lifestyle factors. Although cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs have been shown to be beneficial and effective, rates of referral, uptake and utilisation of traditional hospital or community centre programs are poor. Home-based CR programs have been shown to be as effective as centre-based programs, and recent advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) can be used to enhance the delivery of such programs. The Care Assessment Platform (CAP) is an integrated home-based CR model incorporating ICT (including a mobile phone and the internet) and providing all the core components of traditional CR (education, physical activity, exercise training, behaviour modification strategies and psychological counselling). The mobile phone given to patients has an integrated accelerometer and diary application for recording exercise and health information. A central database, with access to these data, allows mentors to assess patients' progress, assist in setting goals, revise targets and give weekly personal feedback. Mentors find the mobile-phone modalities practical and easy to use, and preliminary results show high usage rates and acceptance of ICT by participants. The provision of ICT-supported home-based CR programs may enable more patients in both metropolitan and remote settings to benefit from CR. |
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Marlien Varnfield; Mohanraj K Karunanithi; Antti Särelä; Elsa Garcia; Anita Fairfull; Brian F Oldenburg; Darren L Walters |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: The Medical journal of Australia Volume: 194 ISSN: 1326-5377 ISO Abbreviation: Med. J. Aust. Publication Date: 2011 Feb |
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Created Date: 2011-03-15 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0400714 Medline TA: Med J Aust Country: Australia |
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Languages: eng Pagination: S15-9 Citation Subset: IM |
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Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO ICT Centre, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. marlien.varnfield@csiro.au. |
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