What motivates heart transplantation patients to exercise and engage in physical activity? A network analysis.

Elena Marques-Sule Dominique Hansen Luis Almenar-Bonet Pallav Deka Trinidad Sentandreu-Mañó Raquel López-Vilella Leonie Klompstra Felipe Vilaça Cavallari Machado

Published in: European journal of cardiovascular nursing (2023)

Functional capacity and autonomous motivation to exercise are the most promising targets of interventions to improve PA levels and sedentary time in patients post-HTx. Furthermore, frailty and sarcopenia risk were found to mediate the effect of several other factors on PA and sedentary time.

Keyphrases

physical activity
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
chronic kidney disease
newly diagnosed
network analysis
prognostic factors
body mass index
high intensity
depressive symptoms
patient reported