Key result
Patients' experiences after AMI are characterized by navigating lifestyle changes and emotional reactions, highlighting a lack of professional guidance for significant psychosocial changes.
Why the study?
Recovery from acute myocardial infarction has focused largely on medical outcomes, resulting in a lack of descriptive accounts regarding patients' lived recovery experiences.
Population
224 participants aged 23 to 90 years across 17 qualitative studies
Design
Qualitative meta-synthesis using an adapted meta-ethnography approach
Authors
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Underscores need for enhanced psychosocial support post-AMI; extends qualitative synthesis to guide intervention trials.
Meta-Analysis (n=224)
Patients recovering from AMI face significant psychosocial challenges, including navigating lifestyle changes and emotional reactions, highlighting a need for better professional guidance and support.
Dreyer et al. (2020) conducted a meta-analysis in Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) (n=224). Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) experience was evaluated on Patients' experiences after AMI. Patients' experiences after AMI are characterized by navigating lifestyle changes and emotional reactions, highlighting a lack of professional guidance for significant psychosocial changes.