Publications by authors named "Manuel Pardos Lafarga"

Objective: The literature points to the possibility of carrying out an intervention, from primary prevention to rehabilitation after a cardiac event, towards decreasing the incidence of such cardiac events and facilitating the return to daily life. The objective was to determine the effect of a cardiac rehabilitation intervention over perceived selfefficacy for patients who have suffered a cardiac event.

Methods: A community clinical trial, open, controlled, and randomised, was designed, and performed in primary care.

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Cardiac rehabilitation is cost-effective and should be considered a part of the care system provided to patients who have suffered a myocardial infarction or another heart disease. The main variable to study was the scoring, prior to and after the intervention in the General Scale of Self-Efficacy by Baessler & Schwarzer. A clinical community trial that was open controlled and randomised was used.

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Objectives: There is a clear evidence of the benefit of cardiac rehabilitation after a cardiovascular event on patients' mood and perceived self-efficacy in terms of their own health care. Our aim is to define the correlation between mood-related variables, biotype and self-efficacy in this population.

Design: Descriptive study.

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