Table 1.

Duties of Cardiac Rehabilitation team members in Yazd-Iran.

No.	Team member	No in team	Duties
1	Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	1	Technical and primary assessment of patient
2	Resident medical officer	2	Managing the program and determining the activity level and safety of program
3	Psychiatrist	2	Drug therapy if needed on the basis of diagnosis of team psychologist or for complementing consultations
4	Nurse	6	To increase awareness of the cardiac disease, health literacy, drugs, and patient self-care, especially during activity like heart rate, table of the patient's perceived activity, preventing the incidence of cardiac symptoms during activity, talk test, method of dealing with cardiac symptoms, and the use of nitroglycerine
5	Physiotherapist	2	Rapid initiation of safe activities in cardiac patients, prevention of problems of sedentary living after cardiovascular accidents, and training required for warming up and cooling down to improve musculoskeletal problems
6	Nutritionist	4	Dietary assessment, assessing the lipid profile, blood pressure, blood sugar tests, anthropometry like weight and BMI, and patient training for controlling nutritional cardiac risk factors
7	Psychologist	3	Investigation of mental and psychological status, completing the DASS-21a and SF-36b Life Quality questionnaires, teaching of mental factors, smoking and drug abuse cessation and more consultation for reference to psychiatrist
8	Social worker	3	Survey of social support status of the patients, occupational consultation, appropriate interventions in the case of social problems, creation of a supportive environment, counseling on smoking cessation in coordination with psychologist
9	Secretary	3	Recording of the implemented interventions and patient information

^aDASS: Depression, anxiety, stress scale-21 items.

^bSF: Short form-36.