Why the study?
Does CPR/AED training compared to CPR training alone affect anxiety and depression over 2 years in medically stable post-MI patients and their spouses?
Does CPR/AED training compared to CPR training alone affect anxiety and depression over 2 years in medically stable post-MI patients and their spouses?
Providing home AEDs to post-MI patients does not increase patient psychological distress but may maintain higher anxiety levels in already distressed spouses compared to CPR training alone.
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May maintain higher anxiety in distressed spouses; hypothesis-generating and leaves open causal effects of home AEDs versus CPR training alone.
Thomas et al. (2010) studied this question.
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