Cardiac Rehabilitation During the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Potential for Digital Technology to Support Physical Activity Maintenance: Qualitative Study

Linda G Park   ^{1, 2} , PhD, FNP-BC ;   Serena Chi   ³ , BA ;   Susan Pitsenbarger   ⁴ , BA ;   Julene K Johnson   ⁵ , PhD ;   Amit J Shah   ⁶ , MSCR, MD ;   Abdelaziz Elnaggar   ^{1, 2} , MPH, MBBS ;   Julia von Oppenfeld   ² , BA ;   Evan Cho   ⁷ , BS ;   Arash Harzand   ⁸ , MBA, MD ;   Mary A Whooley   ^{2, 9, 10} , MD

¹ Department of Community Health Systems, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

² Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, United States

³ Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States

⁴ Bennett ReGen, Dearborn, MI, United States

⁵ Institute for Health & Aging, School of Nursing, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁶ Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States

⁷ College of Medicine, California Northstate University, Elk Grove, CA, United States

⁸ Division of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States

⁹ Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

¹⁰ Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States