Patients and spouses frequently attribute MI to tension, often disagree on the cause, and frequently change their explanations over time, highlighting the need to include spouses in discharge planning.
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MI cause attributions differ between patients and spouses and shift over time; hypothesis-generating for joint education but should not yet change practice.
Ellen B. Rudy (1980) studied this question.
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