Table 2.
| n (%) | African (n = 18) | Americas (n = 261) | EMR (n = 24) | European (n = 484) | SEAR (n = 32) | Western Pacific (n = 263) | Total (N = 1082) | pc |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personnel on CR team | ||||||||
| Nurse | 3 (21.4%)¶ |
175 (77.1%) *** †† ‖‖‖ |
20 (95.2%) †† |
367 (94.1%) *** |
22 (75.9%) |
229 (93.5%) ‖‖‖ |
816 (88.1%) |
< 0.001 |
| Dietitian | 14 (87.5%) | 171 (75.3%) | 18 (85.7%) | 305 (79.2%) |
25 (89.3%) | 206 (84.4%) | 739 (80.2%) |
0.82 |
| Physiotherapist | 11 (73.3%) |
143 (63.3%) | 14 (66.7%) |
347 (89.0%) | 23 (85.2%) | 195 (79.6%) | 733 (79.3%) |
0.07 |
| Cardiologist | 9 (60.0%) |
177 (77.6%) | 18 (85.7%) | 324 (83.1%) | 28 (96.6%) |
165 (67.9%) | 721 (77.9%) |
0.51 |
| Administrative assistant/secretary | 10 (71.4%) | 157 (69.8%) ** |
14 (70.0%) | 289 (75.7%) ††† ‖ |
13 (46.4%) ‖ |
113 (47.3%) ** ††† |
596 (65.6%) |
0.001 |
| Psychologist | 6 (40.0%) |
104 (46.2%) * |
7 (33.3%) |
280 (72.4%) * † |
17 (60.7%) |
113 (47.9%) † |
527 (57.8%) |
< 0.05 |
| Kinesiologist/exercise specialist | 12 (75.0%) |
134 (59.3%) | 10 (47.6%) | 201 (52.5%) | 8 (28.6%) |
112 (46.9%) | 477 (52.2%) |
0.36 |
| Physiatrist/PM&R | 5 (35.7%) |
49 (22.6%) | 13 (65.0%) |
199 (52.5%) | 10 (35.7%) | 114 (47.3%) | 389 (43.4%) |
0.43 |
| Social worker | 2 (14.3%) |
71 (32.6%) |
8 (40.0%) |
167 (4.0.2%) | 6 (20.7%) |
126 (52.1%) | 380 (42.2%) |
0.20 |
| Pharmacist | 1 (7.1%) ‖ |
55 (25.7%) |
4 (20.0%) |
119 (31.7%) ‖ |
8 (28.6%) |
179 (74.0%) ¶¶¶ | 366 (41.0%) |
0.001 |
| Psychiatrist | 3 (21.4%) |
31 (14.4%) |
11 (55.0%) |
95 (25.5%) |
11 (40.7%) |
57 (24.2%) |
208 (23.5%) |
0.10 |
| Sports medicine physician | 9 (56.3%) |
37 (17.0%) | 12 (57.1%) | 71 (19.2%) | 3 (10.7%) |
51 (21.4%) |
183 (20.5%) |
0.21 |
| Community health worker | 1 (7.1%) |
17 (7.9%) | 3 (14.3%) |
69 (18.5%) |
3 (15.4%) |
72 (30.3%) |
166 (18.7%) |
0.43 |
| Other physician | 3 (21.4%) |
88 (41.3%) | 10 (50.0%) |
156 (42.2%) | 17 (58.6%) | 60 (26.3%) |
334 (38.2%) |
0.43 |
| Other non-physicians | 3 (30.0%) |
43 (37.4%) |
3 (27.3%) |
65 (33.5%) | 8 (57.1%) |
49 (29.7%) | 171 (33.6%) |
0.66 |
| Total # of program staff | 4.7 ± 2.6 | 5.2 ± 2.2 | 6.4 ± 2.2 | 6.5 ± 3.1 | 5.5 ± 3.0 | 5.5 ± 2.7 | 5.9 ± 2.8 | 0.08 |
| CR staff present during exercise | ||||||||
| Physiotherapist | 8 (80.0%) |
120 (57.1%) | 11 (68.8%) | 261 (81.1%) | 20 (83.3%) | 157 (74.8%) | 577 (72.9%) |
0.29 |
| Nurse | 1 (10.0%) |
138 (65.4%) |
16 (94.1%) | 223 (69.7%) | 16 (66.7%) | 181 (84.6%) | 575 (72.2%) |
0.08 |
| Kinesiologist/exercise specialist | 11 (78.6%) | 116 (57.1%) | 6 (40.0%) |
123 (42.0%) | 6 (26.1%) |
59 (30.1%) | 321 (43.1%) |
0.06 |
| Cardiologist | 0 (0.0%) |
57 (28.2%) | 3 (20.0%) |
98 (3.0.9%) | 12 (48.0%) | 76 (38.6%) | 246 (32.6%) |
0.64 |
| Physiatrist/PM&R | 1 (11.1%) |
33 (17.1%) | 6 (42.9%) |
63 (21.9%) | 3 (13.0%) |
66 (33.7%) | 172 (23.8%) |
0.98 |
| Dietitian | 2 (22.2%) |
24 (13.0%) *** |
10 (66.7%) *** ‖‖‖ ††† ◊◊ |
27 (10.1%) ‖‖‖ |
4 (17.4%) ◊◊ |
18 (9.3%) ††† |
85 (12.3%) |
0.001 |
| Sports medicine physician | 8 (57.1%) |
15 (8.2%) |
8 (47.1%) |
27 (9.8%) |
0 (0.0%) |
21 (11.0%) | 79 (11.2%) |
0.29 |
| Other physician | 1 (11.1%) |
25 (13.3%) | 5 (38.5%) |
25 (9.1%) |
6 (24.0%) |
16 (8.6%) |
78 (11.2%) |
0.08 |
| Community health worker | 0 (0.0%) |
2 (1.1%) |
1 (7.1%) |
6 (2.3%) |
0 (0.0%) |
23 (12.2%) | 32 (4.7%) |
0.25 |
| Other | 2 (25.0%) |
39 (29.3%) | 1 (33.3%) |
37 (18.5%) | 2 (11.8%) |
35 (23.8%) | 116 (22.8%) |
0.50 |
| Total # of program staff present during exercise sessions (mean ± SD) | 2.6 ± 1.4 | 2.8 ± 1.4 | 4.5 ± 2.3 | 2.9 ± 1.8 | 3.1 ± 1.4 | 3.4 ± 2.1 | 3.1 ± 1.8 | 0.28 |
| Number patients served per staff member (mean ± SD) | 3.2 ± 1.7 * |
4.4 ± 3.1 | 2.8 ± 1.3 ††† |
5.8 ± 12.1 * ††† ‖‖ |
3.1 ± 1.4 | 4.2 ± 3.4 ‖‖ |
4.8 ± 8.0 | < 0.05 |
For pairwise comparisons *ǂ†◊‖¶: one symbol = p < .05; two symbols = p < .01; 3 symbols = p < .001.
¶Statistically significantly different from all regions.
CR = Cardiac Rehabilitation; EMR = Eastern Mediterranean Region; PM&R = Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; SEAR = South-East Asia Region; SD = standard deviation.
Note: Due to missing data, percentages are computed where the denominator is the number of valid responses from responding programs.
Data shown by country for most common healthcare professional types on CR team in Supplemental Table 3.
Full-time personnel counted as 1 and part-time personnel counted as 0.50.
Test for statistically significant differences by region, using generalized linear mixed models which accounted for clustering of programs within countries.