Psycho-educational Interventions and Cardiac Rehabilitation

Impact of Working from Home on Cardiovascular Health: An Emerging Issue with the COVID-19 Pandemic

“…Overall, psychosocial distress is known to be associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease [44] and may be managed with psycho-educational interventions that include health information, encouraging physical activity implementation by providing appropriate and feasible measures for exercise even at home, emotional/psychosocial support, smoking cessation interventions, and comprehensive alcohol treatment programs [45]. Furthermore, relaxation exercise practice, which seems to play a role in ischemic heart disease secondary prevention [45], can also be included among the interventions aimed at managing psychological distress while working from home. Several findings from experimental and clinical studies strongly indicate the presence of a link between psychological stress associated with work and cardiovascular disease occurrence.…”

Do Pathophysiologic Mechanisms Linking Unhealthy Lifestyle to Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer Imply Shared Preventive Measures? ― A Critical Narrative Review ―

“…In this review, we emphasize the role of a comprehensive preventive approach starting from an individual lifestyle assessment that is aimed at managing unhealthy behaviors through improved nutrition, smoking cessation, alcohol abuse counseling, physical activity, and weight management. This multimodal approach is well established for CVD patients 54 and has recently been proposed to improve cardiovascular outcomes even in cancer patients. 81,82 Increased effort in the early implementation of primary prevention with measures that promote a healthy lifestyle from childhood will result in a larger health benefit by reducing both CVD and cancer risk in the long term, as well as the costs associated with them.…”

“…Nutritional education aimed at teaching the basis of a healthy dietary pattern is a further cornerstone in CVD 33,54 and cancer prevention. 26 Other main components of a global preventive approach should be counseling on smoking cessation 54 and rehabilitative programs for alcohol abuse. 67…”

Italian Association of Hospital Cardiologists position paper—obesity in adults: a clinical primer

“…This educational process can only be achieved through a two-way relationship in which the recipients process the message and present it back to the source to receive it again until they become fully aware of it. 66 This removes resistance and other forms of manipulation that may alter or negate its meaning. Only with this awareness, the patients can manage their behaviour in the countless situations that life will present, consistent with the health goals they have set, and with the serenity of someone who perceives that overcoming difficulties have a positive purpose and goal.…”