Factors Influencing the Rehabilitation of the Patient With Ischæmic Heart Disease

Miller, Max; Brewer, Jacob

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1969.tb92181.x

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“…In the case of the coping tape, however, the inclusion of possible setbacks might have made male spouses more hesitant about encouraging certain behaviors, for example, exercise, fearing that their wives might experience one of those setbacks. Considerable evidence suggests that spousal overprotectiveness is common among cardiac patients (e.g., Croog & Fitzgerald, 1978; Dracup, 1994; Mayou, Foster, & Williamson, 1978) and is associated with poorer posthospital recovery (e.g., Jenkins, Stanton, Savageau, et al, 1983; Miller & Brewer, 1969; Wishnie, Hackett, & Cassem, 1977). Thus, patients whose spouses received the mastery preparation may have benefited relative to controls from their spouses being less uncertain and more optimistic (as indicated in Table 2) and, perhaps, also from their spouses more actively encouraging them during the recovery period.…”

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Effects of a videotape information intervention for spouses on spouse distress and patient recovery from surgery.

Mahler

Kulik²

2002

Health Psychology

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Shortly before hospital release, the spouses of 226 male and 70 female coronary artery bypass graft patients were randomly assigned to view an optimistically slanted information tape, a tape that featured coping with more ups and downs, or no tape at all. Results indicated that women, whether as patients or as caregivers, were at elevated risk for a variety of negative outcomes during the subsequent 6 months. However, female patients who had spouses in the optimistic, mastery-tape condition were protected from the elevated levels of problems that characterized women whose spouses received only standard discharge preparation. Results are discussed in relation to research on optimism effects and work that suggests men may generally be less effective caregivers than women.

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