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Table 2 Healthcare administrators’ knowledge, perceptions and attitudes regarding cardiac rehabilitation, N = 32

From: Barriers to cardiac rehabilitation delivery in a low-resource setting from the perspective of healthcare administrators, rehabilitation providers, and cardiac patients

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

  1. CR cardiac rehabilitation, SD standard deviation
  2. a: Items were scored on a scale from 1 “poor” to 5 “excellent”
  3. b: Items were scored on a scale from 1 “not even considered” to 5 “extremely important”
  4. c: Items were scores on a scale from 1 “strongly disagree” to 5 “strongly agree”
  5. d: These items were displayed in reverse-scored
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