Depression and Physical Activity Post-Cardiac Surgery: 18 Months of Follow-Up
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of depressive symptoms post cardiac surgery remains high even 1 year after the operation. However, the relationship between postsurgery long-term depression and physical activity is not well understood. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of our study was to investigate the relationship between depression and physical activity levels in patients during an 18-month follow-up period post cardiac surgery. METHODS: Fifty-seven patients with 82.5% men and an average age of 60.3 years were followed up for 18 months in the study. Depression was assessed using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale. Physical activity levels were measured using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire at 18 months. RESULTS: The most common procedures were cardiac bypass (49.1%) and valve replacement (35.1%). Compared with preoperative levels (14.4 ± 1.5), depression scores were significantly increased immediately post surgery (21.0 ± 1.3, P = .002), decreased at 10 days post discharge (14.4 ± 1.2, P < .001), and increased again at 18 months post discharge (19.0 ± 1.1, P = .01). Physical activity levels, measured using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire, were inversely associated with depression scores. Participation in cardiac rehabilitation did not show a significant relationship with depression scores. CONCLUSIONS: Patients with higher International Physical Activity Questionnaire scores had lower Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scores, highlighting the potential benefits of physical activity in managing postoperative depression. These findings underscore the importance of promoting physical activity as a potential intervention to improve mental health in patients who had undergone cardiac surgery.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".