dc.contributor.author | Sun, Jing | |
dc.contributor.author | Buys, Nicholas | |
dc.contributor.author | Jayasinghe, Rohan | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-03T15:17:31Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-03T15:17:31Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
dc.date.modified | 2014-08-05T23:04:22Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1360-7863 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/13607863.2013.875120 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/61915 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background: 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.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.description.publicationstatus | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Routledge | |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | |
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublication | N | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 289 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 295 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 3 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Aging and Mental Health | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 18 | |
dc.rights.retention | Y | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Biomedical and clinical sciences | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases) | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Human society | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Psychology | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Health sciences | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 32 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 320101 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 44 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 52 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 42 | |
dc.title | Effects of community-based meditative Tai Chi programme on improving quality of life, physical and mental health in chronic heart failure participants | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
gro.faculty | Griffith Health, School of Medicine | |
gro.hasfulltext | No Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Buys, Nicholas J. | |