A systematic review of patient reported factors associated with uptake and completion of cardiovascular lifestyle behaviour change

Table 1 Main characteristics of included 32 primary studies

Study characteristics	Total [references]
Outcome:
Uptake in CR^a	24 [46, 48–57, 60, 61, 63–67, 70, 72][74–77]
Completed CR	11 [47, 51, 55, 59, 62, 68, 69, 71, 76, 78]
Design:
Cross sectional	7 [49, 53, 62, 67, 68, 72, 74]
Cohort	24 [46–48, 50–52, 54–57, 59–61, 63–66][69–71, 73, 75, 76, 78]
RCT	1 [77]
Prospective/retrospective:
Prospective	23 [46, 48–52, 54–56, 59–61][63–66, 69, 70, 73, 74, 76–78]
Retrospective	9[47, 53, 57, 62, 67, 68, 71, 72, 75]
Country:
USA	5 [47, 55, 59, 68, 75]
UK	7 [48, 63, 64, 70, 73, 74, 78]
Australia/New Zealand	9 [49, 51–54, 60, 67, 76, 77]
Canada	4 [46, 56, 57, 62]
Rest of Europe (Sweden, Denmark, Poland)	4 [50, 65, 66, 72]
Middle East	3 [61, 69, 71]

CR – cardiac rehabilitation; RCT – randomized controlled trial.
^aWhitmarsh et al., 2003 [74] combined non-attendees with poor attendees in their analysis and as the majority group were non-attendees the study has been categorised as ‘uptake’.

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