ArticleBMJ open2022
To what extend is socioeconomic status associated with not taking up and dropout from cardiac rehabilitation: a population-based follow-up study.
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- Socioeconomic variation in the relationship between cardiac rehabilitation participation and clinical outcomes: a systematic review.Open heart · 2025Pooled it
- Reducing dropout rates in cardiac rehabilitation among cardiac patients in a vulnerable situation: systematic development and feasibility testing of the Heart Priority Programme.BMC health services research · 2024Trial
- Social Inequality in the Comprehensive Cardiac Rehabilitation Pathway: A Nationwide Cohort Study Across Hospitals and Primary Health Care Centers.Journal of cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and prevention · 2026Article
- The association between neighborhood social vulnerability and community-based rehabilitation after stroke.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- The Accessibility and Effect of Cardiac Rehabilitation in COVID-19 Pandemic Era.Annals of rehabilitation medicine · 2024Article
- A novel referral strategy to enhance the enrollment of patients with heart failure in cardiac rehabilitation: A feasibility study.Health science reports · 2024Article
- Understanding Facilitators and Challenges to Care Transition in Cardiac Rehabilitation: Perspectives and Assumptions of Healthcare Professionals.Global qualitative nursing researchArticle
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Abstract
objectivesHigh socioeconomic status (SES) has been linked to high referral for cardiac rehabilitation (CR). However, the impact of SES on CR utilisation from enrolment to completion is unclear. The objective of this study was to examine whether indicators of SES are associated with not taking up and dropout from CR.
designA population-based, follow-up study.
settingHospitals and primary healthcare centres in the Central Denmark Region. PARTICIPANT: Patients diagnosed with ischaemic heart disease (IHD) in the hospital and referred for rehabilitation in the primary healthcare setting from 1 September 2017 to 31 August 2018 (n=2018). VARIABLES: Four SES indicators (education, disposable family income, occupation and cohabitant status) were selected because of their established association with cardiovascular health and CR utilisation. Patients were followed up regarding no uptake of or dropout from CR in the primary healthcare setting. STATISTICAL
methodsThe associations between the four SES indicators and either no uptake or dropout from CR were analysed using logistic regression with adjustment for age, sex, nationality and comorbidity.
resultsOverall, 25% (n=507) of the referred patients did not take up CR and 24% (n=377) of the participators dropped out the CR. All adjusted ORs, except one (education/dropout) demonstrated that low SES compared with high are statistically significantly associated with higher odds of not taking up CR and dropout from CR. The ORs ranged from 1.52, 95% CI 1.13 to 2.04 (education/no uptake) to 2.36, 95% CI 1.60 to 3.46 (occupation/dropout).
conclusionsThis study highlights that indicators of SES are important markers of CR utilisation following hospitalisation for IHD.
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