Behavioral Interventions for Improvement of Adherence at Exercise-based Cardiac Rehabilitation (ECRA)

The exercise goal is set in liaison between the patient and the physiotherapist, based on activities and target behaviors that the patient thinks is relevant and important. The patients are asked to self-monitor the defined exercise goal by completing an exercise diary. The exercise diary includes specification of the performed exercise dose (frequency, intensity and duration). The exercise diary is followed up by a physiotherapist every third week by a phone call or a personal meeting. Visual feed-back on the performed dose of exercise is given once by accelerometry. At end of intervention (16 weeks) the patient is offered a follow-up meeting with the physiotherapist to discuss a long-term exercise goal.