What is Teleheart?
Teleheart is a telehealth program to support the behavioural and psychological recovery of people who have had an acute cardiac event. The Teleheart program comprises five sessions and is delivered by a specially-trained cardiac facilitator by telephone or video call. The program is designed to assist people to make healthy behaviour changes such as increasing physical activity, improving healthy eating, and quitting smoking, as well as managing emotional wellbeing
Teleheart uses strategies and tools such as collaborative goal setting, developing action plans and coping plans, assessing pros and cons, self-monitoring of thoughts and emotions, identifying and engaging required support, and goal-review and renewal. Clients are encouraged to select the lifestyle areas which they wish to work on, and session-delivery is tailored to patients’ readiness to change. Session duration is 20-40 minutes.
Teleheart is one of the three programs in the Centre’s Cardiac Wellbeing Program.