title: Nontraditional Cardiac Rehabilitation in Korean Patients with Coronary Artery Disease.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This pilot investigation sought to compare outcomes including depression, anxiety, stress, mindful awareness, and exercise capacity between exercise-focused cardiac rehabilitation (ECR) and meditation-focused cardiac rehabilitation (MCR) programs for patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) who had percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
  
  
  METHODS
  A nonrandomized pretest-posttest design was employed.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two different interventions (ECR vs. MCR) were implemented with participants of each group for 12 weeks. Questionnaires assessing depression, anxiety, stress, and mindful awareness and measures of peak VO2 were completed before and after the 12-week interventions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Thirteen patients completed the cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs. Meditation-focused cardiac rehabilitation was associated with significantly greater reductions in depression as compared to ECR; there were no significant differences between the two groups on other outcomes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The MCR program has similar effects to improve the physical and psychological outcomes, compared with the ECR program.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is potential for patients with CAD to participate in and benefit from nontraditional CR programs, and such CR could play a role in secondary prevention of CAD.
authors.affiliation: 1 Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea2 College of Nursing, Research Institute of Nursing Science, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea3 School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA4 Cardiac Rehabilitation Center, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea5 Department of Health and Human Performance, University of Houston, TX, USA6 Dongshin University, Jeonnam, South Korea.
authors.forename: Jongyoung
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Yeoungsuk
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Ruth
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lindquist
authors.forename: Youngsook
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yoo
authors.forename: Eunkyung
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Seojin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Younghae
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: Michelle A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Mathiason
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001007:Anxiety / Q000628:therapy; D000072038:Cardiac Rehabilitation / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D003863:Depression / Q000628:therapy; D005081:Exercise Therapy / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology / Q000592:standards*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019122:Meditation / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D064866:Mindfulness / Q000379:methods; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D019145:Rehabilitation Nursing / Q000379:methods; D056910:Republic of Korea; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000628:therapy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires