Why the study?
Does spousal anxiety and depression impact patients' psychosocial recovery after acute myocardial infarction or coronary revascularization?
Population
417 patient-spouse pairs recruited after the patient was hospitalized for either acute myocardial infarction…
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Spousal anxiety/depression was associated with worse patient adjustment post-MI; hypothesis-generating for couple-focused interventions before practice change.
Does spousal anxiety and depression impact patients' psychosocial recovery after acute myocardial infarction or coronary revascularization?
Spouses of patients with recent cardiac events often experience greater psychological distress than the patients themselves, which negatively impacts the patients' psychosocial recovery.
Moser et al. (2004) studied this question.
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