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dc.contributor.authorSun, Jing
dc.contributor.authorBuys, Nicholas
dc.contributor.authorJayasinghe, Rohan
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:17:31Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:17:31Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.date.modified2014-08-05T23:04:22Z
dc.identifier.issn1360-7863
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13607863.2013.875120
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/61915
dc.description.abstractBackground: There is increasing evidence that coronary heart disease is linked with a number of psychosocial risk factors and biophysiological risk factors such as metabolic syndrome. This study aimed to compare Tai Chi programme heart-failure participants between the pre-intervention phase and six month after intervention time in health-related quality of life (HRQoL), including physical health, role-physical, bodily pain, general health, vitality, social functioning, role-emotional and mental health. In addition, the difference between pre-intervention and post-intervention time in psychological distress and resilience, body mass index (BMI), systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) were compared.Methods: A prospective intervention study was conducted in 2012 to evaluate the effectiveness of a community-based meditation Tai Chi intervention programme to improve heart-failure patients' health. Measures included the Short-Form 12 Health Survey (SF-12), General Health Questionnaire (GHQ30), resilience scale, BMI, blood pressure and waist circumference. Univariate analysis of variance was used to compare the difference between pre- and post-intervention in Tai Chi participants.Results: Outcomes differed in significance and magnitude across four HRQoL measures, psychological distress and resilience between the pre- and post-intervention time in heart-failure patients who participated in the Tai Chi exercise. The participants in the post-intervention time also reduced BMI, SBP, and waist circumference.Conclusions: Regular and more than six months Tai Chi exercises had a beneficial effect to HRQoL, reducing psychological distress, promoting resilience, and reducing the BMI and blood pressure level in heart-failure patients.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom289
dc.relation.ispartofpageto295
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAging and Mental Health
dc.relation.ispartofvolume18
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBiomedical and clinical sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases)
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHuman society
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPsychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHealth sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode32
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode320101
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode44
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode52
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode42
dc.titleEffects of community-based meditative Tai Chi programme on improving quality of life, physical and mental health in chronic heart failure participants
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Health, School of Medicine
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorBuys, Nicholas J.


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