| Multimorbidity Rehabilitation Group (MMRG) (n = 9) | Disease-Specific Rehabilitation Group (DSRG) (n = 7) |
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Age (in years), mean (SD) | 68 (10) | 71 (8) |
Male, n (%) | 7 (78%) | 3 (43%) |
BMI, mean (SD) | 27 (6) | 32 (5) |
Main diagnosis, n (%) | ||
- Acute myocardial infarction | 2 (22%) | 1 (14%) |
- Percutaneous coronary intervention—stent | 0 (0%) | 3 (43%) |
- Coronary artery bypass graft surgery | 2 (22%) | 0 (0%) |
- Mitral valve replacement/repair | 1 (11%) | 0 (0%) |
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | 3 (34%) | 2 (29%) |
- Asthma | 0 (0%) | 1 (14%) |
- Congestive heart failure | 1 (11%) | 0 (0%) |
Disease-Specific Program Originally Referred to, n (%) | ||
- Cardiac | 5 (56%) | 4 (57%) |
- Heart failure | 1 (11%) | 0 (0%) |
- Pulmonary | 3 (33%) | 3 (43%) |
Smoking status, n (%) | ||
- Current | 1 (12%) | 1 (14%) |
- Ex-smoker | 4 (44%) | 4 (57%) |
- Never | 4 (44%) | 2 (29%) |
Baseline 6MWD, mean (SD) | 446 (102) | 335 (141) |
Other comorbidities, n (%) | ||
- Coronary heart disease | 8 (89%) | 4 (57%) |
- Hypertension | 8 (89%) | 5 (71%) |
- Diabetes | 4 (44%) | 4 (57%) |
Number of comorbidities, mean (SD) | 4 (1) | 4 (1) |
Functional Comorbidity Index, mean (SD) | 4 (2) | 8 (1) |
Multimorbidity Illness Perception Scale, mean (SD) | ||
- Treatment burden | 4 (3) | 5 (4) |
- Prioritization | 6 (4) | 9 (2) |
- Causal relationships | 3 (3) | 3 (3) |
- Activity restriction | 4 (3) | 4 (2) |
- Emotional representations | 9 (12) | 16 (9) |
- Summary scale | 26 (20) | 37 (16) |
Cumulative Illness Rating Scale for Geriatrics, mean (SD) | ||
- Total number of categories endorsed | 4 (2) | 5 (1) |
- Total score | 6 (3) | 9 (2) |
- Severity index | 2 (0) | 2 (0) |
- Number of categories at level 3 severity | 0 (1) | 1 (1) |
- Number of categories at level 4 severity | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |