Table 2.
Healthcare administrators’ knowledge, perceptions and attitudes regarding cardiac rehabilitation, N = 32
| Item | mean ± SD |
|---|---|
| KNOWLEDGEa | |
| My knowledge of what CR entails | 2.75 ± 1.34 |
| Rates of participation in CR at the institution where I am employed | 2.09 ± 1.11 |
| The location of the nearest CR program | 2.00 ± 1.29 |
| Level of knowledge about CR of my colleagues | 1.71 ± 0.85 |
| PERCEPTIONSb | |
| The importance of CR for outpatient care | 4.37 ± 0.55 |
| The role of CR access programs in reducing patient length of stay | 4.18 ± 0.64 |
| The role of CR programs in reducing re-admissions | 4.15 ± 0.76 |
| The importance of care of patients with other vascular conditions in CR | 4.00 ± 0.76 |
| Perceptions of your institution about the importance of CR | 3.81 ± 0.85 |
| ATTITUDESc | |
| CR programs provide benefits beyond what primary care providers can offer | 4.28 ± 0.72 |
| CR programs promote sustainedbehavioral changes that improve patient outcomes | 4.09 ± 0.92 |
| It is likely that government funding for CR programs will be sustained over time | 4.06 ± 0.80 |
| It is the hospital’s responsibility to provide all eligible inpatients with the information they need to begin CR | 3.87 ± 1.00 |
| The government should provide more funding for CR | 3.87 ± 0.65 |
| Government ministry funding models are a financial disincentive to CR provisiond | 3.68 ± 1.09 |
| Patients and their families should be responsible for their own health behavior changes and risk reduction self-management posthospitalizationd | 3.46 ± 1.31 |
| We do not have enough space to run a CR program at my institutiond | 3.40 ± 1.26 |
| The closest available CR program is of good quality | 3.15 ± 0.84 |
| CR services are generally one of the first programs to be cut back when we make budget reductionsd | 2.65 ± 1.00 |
| Scarce healthcare money should not be spent on outpatient care at the expense of acute cared | 2.25 ± 1.13 |
| Health care providers on the cardiac floor have other more important clinical duties than to refer patients to CRd | 1.90 ± 0.77 |
| I am skeptical about the benefits of CR programsd | 1.84 ± 0.76 |
| Government health insurance should not cover CR services for cardiac patients post-hospitalizationd | 1.56 ± 0.50 |
CR cardiac rehabilitation, SD standard deviation
a: Items were scored on a scale from 1 “poor” to 5 “excellent”
b: Items were scored on a scale from 1 “not even considered” to 5 “extremely important”
c: Items were scores on a scale from 1 “strongly disagree” to 5 “strongly agree”
d: These items were displayed in reverse-scored