title: Sociodemographic Predictors in Failure to Complete Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the role of sociodemographic factors in failure to complete outpatient cardiac rehabilitation (CR).
  
  
  METHODS
  This was a retrospective study that used information obtained from the database of the cardiac rehabilitation department of a cardiac hospital in Iran. Data from 1,050 CR patients treated at the hospital between January 2001 and January 2013 was analyzed using binary logistic regression analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Only 49% of the patients completed the CR program. After adjustment for baseline variables, it was found that the following were significantly associated with failure to complete the CR program: illiteracy (p<0.001), old age (p<0.001), being an employee or retired (p<0.05), having a low capacity for exercise (p<0.001), depression (p<0.001), low anxiety (p<0.001), and not currently being a smoker (p<0.001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Paying more attention to older patients with low literacy levels and limited exercise capacity, who are employed or retired, and who are not current smokers, and taking therapeutic measures to control psychological complications such as depression, may be effective in ensuring that patients complete outpatient cardiac rehabilitation.
authors.affiliation: Cardiac Rehabilitation Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.
authors.forename: Behzad
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Heydarpour
authors.affiliation: Cardiac Rehabilitation Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.
authors.forename: Mozhgan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saeidi
authors.affiliation: Cardiac Rehabilitation Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.
authors.forename: Parvin
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ezzati
authors.affiliation: Lifestyle Modification Research Center, Imam Reza Hospital, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Soroush
authors.affiliation: Cardiac Rehabilitation Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.
authors.forename: Saeid
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Komasi
keywords: Cardiac disease; Demographic factors; Outpatients; Patient dropout; Rehabilitation; Social characteristics