Commentary on Yohannes AM, Doherty P, Bundy C & Yalfani A (2010) The long‐term benefits of cardiac rehabilitation on depression, anxiety, physical activity and quality of life. Journal of Clinical Nursing 19, 2806–2813

Response to Ski CF & Thompson DR (2011) Commentary on Yohannes AM, Doherty P, Bundy C & Yalfani A (2010) The long‐term benefits of cardiac rehabilitation on depression, anxiety, physical activity and quality of life. Journal of Clinical Nursing 19, 2806–2813

“…We are grateful for the editorial comments by Ski and Thompson (2011). Generally, their comments reinforce the importance of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) and that our findings have ‘clinical relevance’ to improve quality of life, depression and anxiety for patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) (Yohannes et al.…”

“…Our study was based on the current evidence available that CR should be provided twice a week at least for six weeks. The assertion that 105 patients at 12 months are inadequate for analysis reflects a lack of understanding from Ski and Thompson (2011). Our findings showed that CR was beneficial in improving quality of life, exceeding a change of 0·5, which has been identified as the minimal important difference to show the smallest score clinically meaningful for patients with cardiac problems after CR (Oldridge et al.…”