The Research Aims to Study the Effectiveness of a Physical Exercise Program on Indicators of Quality of Life and Functionality: It Will be Applied at Home to People Undergoing Cardiac Surgery, in Phase II of Cardiac Rehabilitation

Functionality

Functionality is the ability regarding basic physical and cognitive activities such as walking or reaching, focusing attention, and communicating, as well as the routine activities of daily living, including eating, bathing, dressing, transferring, and toileting; and life situations such as school or play for children and, for adults, work outside the home or maintaining a household. It will be measured by the London Chest Daily Activities scale.

Time frame: The results are expected to be measured at the beginning of the program, at six weeks, and at the end (at 12 weeks).

Perceived Quality of life

Quality of life is a generic concept reflecting concern with the modification and enhancement of life attributes, e.g., physical, political, moral, social environment as well as health and disease. It will be measured by the Short Form-36 quality of life assessment scale.

Time frame: The results are expected to be measured at the beginning of the program, at six weeks, and at the end (at 12 weeks).

Tolerance to physical exercise

Tolerance to physical exercise is the exercise capacity of an individual as measured by endurance (maximal exercise duration and/or maximal attained work load) during an exercise test. It will be measured by the 6-minute walk test.

Time frame: The results are expected to be measured at the beginning of the program, at six weeks, and at the end (at 12 weeks).