Barriers and Facilitators of Cardiac Rehabilitation in a Middle-Income Country: A Qualitative Study from China
More awareness regarding the effectiveness of CR is needed. Implementing CR in secondary and primary health institutions could overcome the barriers regarding travel distance and transportation to faraway hospitals. The CR reimbursement methods are needed to ease the financial burden on patients. Our findings reveal factors that need to be considered by policymakers to deliver CR on a wider scale in China.
Authors
- Kees Ahaus (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9973-3746)
- Sarah I. M. Janus (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0419-4407)
- Ning Qu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9323-4292)
- Huibert Burger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6484-0349)
- Jiamin Du (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5968-3120)
- Sytse Ulbe Zuidema (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4991-9507)
- Zhigang Guo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0952-8808)
- Ying Zou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1352-8599)
- Karel Zuidema
Institutions
- University Medical Center Groningen (NL)
- Tianjin University (CN)
- University of Groningen (NL)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Tianjin Chest Hospital (CN)
- Tianjin Medical University (CN)
- Nyenrode Business University (NL)
- Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Published
- 2025-04-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph22040574
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Cardiac Health and Mental Health
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 6.94
Funders
- Rijksuniversiteit Groningen