How important are individual counselling, expectancy beliefs and autonomy for the maintenance of exercise after cardiac rehabilitation?
Thomas Mildestvedt Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, Section for General Practice, University of Bergen, thomas.mildestvedt{at}isf.uib.no’ + u + ‘@’ + d + ”//–> Eivind Meland Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, Section for General Practice, University of Bergen Geir Egil Eide Centre for Clinical Research, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen and Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, Section for Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Bergen, Norway Aims: We examined whether autonomy supportive and self-efficacy enhancing individual lifestyle counselling was associated with improved maintenance of exercise and physical capacity compared with group based counselling. We also tested whether self-efficacy beliefs and autonomous motivation was associated with improved maintenance of exercise over time. Methods: Randomised controlled trial and longitudinal study of predictor variables. One hundred and seventy six (38 female) pa
