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SOCIAL EFFECTS OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION IN MEN UNDER THE AGE OF 50 YEARS: A REVIEW AFTER ONE TO EIGHT YEARS
Author(s) -
Brown L. B.,
Antic R.,
Hetzel B. S.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1969.tb105658.x
Subject(s) - personality , myocardial infarction , adaptation (eye) , medicine , quality of life (healthcare) , disease , coronary heart disease , task (project management) , psychology , gerontology , psychiatry , cardiology , social psychology , management , neuroscience , economics , nursing
A series of 41 survivors of myocardial infarction have been reviewed after one to eight years; 23 of them have made a reasonable social adaptation, while 18 showed some deterioration of quality of life. Adjustment appears to have been independent of personality factors, with a wide range of strategies invoked for the adaptation, some of which allow secondary gains from the illness itself. One immediate preventive task in coronary heart disease is to reduce the responses of invalidity, when these are not demanded by an actual physical incapacity. Better management of the social environment of the patient, including particularly the areas of family and employment, will result in lessened morbidity. The value of considering the patient as part of a social system is pointed out.