Relationship between quality of life and aerobic capacity of patients entering phase II cardiac rehabilitation after coronary artery bypass graft surgery》.pdf

Available online at Journal of the Chinese Medical Association 75 (2012) 121e126 Original Article Relationship between quality of life and aerobic capacity of patients entering phase II cardiac rehabilitation after coronary artery bypass graft surgery Po-Chin Strong a, Si-Huei Lee a,b, Yi-Chieh Chou a, Min-Jung Wu a, Su-Ying Hung a, Chen-Liang Chou a,b,* a Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC b Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC Received August 1, 2011; accepted November 22, 2011 Abstract Background : This cross-sectional study examined the relationship between patients’ aerobic fitness and general health perceptions and how they correspond with functional aerobic impairment (%FAI) and quality of life (QOL). Methods : One hundred and two patients were administered a version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life brief form questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF). Then, each patient underwent cardiopulmonary exercise tests to determine their aerobic fitness and %FAI. We performed Pearson’s and Spearman’s correlation analyses to assess the association between variables on the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire and the each patient’s aerobic fitness. Results : Pearson’s correlation coefficient demonstrated a significant association between WHOQOL-BREF scores and peak oxygen uptake (peak VO2) in the physical domain (p ¼ 0.