Development, piloting and validation of the Recommending Cardiac Rehabilitation (ReCaRe) instrument

BackgroundHealth practitioners’ values, attitudes and beliefs largely determine their referrals to cardiac rehabilitation (CR).ObjectiveTo develop and test the Recommending Cardiac Rehabilitation scale (ReCaRe), designed to assess health professionals attitudes, values and beliefs to CR referral.MethodsReCaRe was appraised for: content validity (Delphi method, expert panel); interpretability and face validity (interview, health professionals);...