ArticleFrontiers in medicine2026
Development and validation of an interpretable machine learning model for concurrent identification of kinesiophobia in older patients with coronary heart disease after percutaneous coronary intervention.
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Background: Kinesiophobia reduces participation in cardiac rehabilitation and impairs exercise adherence among older patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). This study aimed to develop and validate an interpretable machine learning (ML) model for identifying prevalent kinesiophobia in this population at the time of assessment. Methods: From December 2024 to August 2025, 502 older patients with CHD who underwent PCI were recruited from three tertiary grade-A hospitals in Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China. After stratification by kinesiophobia status, participants were randomly assigned to a development set ( Results: A total of 15 predictors were identified, including the Barthel Index, avoidance, residence, fear of disease progression, clinical classification, confrontation, resignation, pain severity, educational level, smoking status, gender, depression, drinking status, exercise self-efficacy, and self-perceived burden. The mean outer-loop area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) values for LR, DT, RF, SVM, and XGBoost were 0.884 ± 0.076, 0.795 ± 0.069, 0.876 ± 0.071, 0.879 ± 0.072, and 0.878 ± 0.072, respectively. XGBoost demonstrated the best overall performance. The XGBoost model achieved an AUC of 0.821 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.755-0.884] in the internal validation set and 0.981 (95% CI: 0.963-0.994) in the external validation set. The Brier scores were 0.170 and 0.062 in the internal and external validation sets, respectively. The corresponding calibration intercepts were 0.269 and 0.150, while the calibration slopes were 0.744 and 2.072, respectively. Conclusion: This study developed an interpretable ML model for the concurrent identification of kinesiophobia in older patients with CHD after PCI. After further validation in broader populations, the model may support early identification and personalized cardiac rehabilitation management.
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