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Showing papers in "Scandinavian Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine in 1970"








Journal Article
TL;DR: For more than 10 years, an informal and individualised approach to the rehabilitation of patients with coronary heart disease in the cardiac department at St. Vincent’s Hospital has been based on early ambulation and early discharge of patients, and on encouragement to return to previous employment where possible.

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Journal Article
TL;DR: In this paper, two groups of male patients who had survived an acute myocardial infarction and who were treated by alternative regimes of early or late mobilisation were given psychological tests on leaving hospital and at follow-up approximately one year later.
Abstract: Two groups of male patients who had survived an acute myocardial infarction and who were treated by alternative regimes of early or late mobilisation were given psychological tests on leaving hospital and at follow-up approximately one year later. Test scores on neuroticism, extroversion and lying from the Eysenck Personality Inventory were analysed showing that: (1) both groups studied increased their neuroticism scores and decreased their extroversion scores over the follow-up period; (2) the earlier mobilised group had lower neuroticism scores on leaving hospital; and (3) at the end of the follow-up period there was no significant difference between early and late mobilised groups in extroversion and neuroticism scores. It is suggested that the initial advantages of earlier mobilisation in producing optimism in the patient may be lost when the patient is returned to his home environment.












Journal Article
TL;DR: For example, this paper found that patients with long-standing psycho-social problems were more likely to be indifferent to their treatment in the CCU, while the physical severity of their illness had no relation to the psychological reactions evoked by the unit.
Abstract: 203 consecutive male patients who had received initial treatment in the Coronary Care Unit, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh were interviewed in the medical ward of transfer on the day following discharge from the unit. The patients' attitudes to their treatment in the CCU (6 beds in separate sound-damped rooms) were ascertained and ans assessment of their psychological state, including a measurement of anxiety (Cattell 8-Parallel Form A), was carried out. 129 (63·5 per cent) had a proven myocardial infarction. 179 (88 per cent) were reassured by the unit, 15 (7 per cent) were indifferent and 9 (5 per cent) had been upset by their stay in the unit. Therapeutic procedures in the unit did not upset the patients and the physical severity of illness bore no relation to the psychological reactions evoked by the unit. Factors which contributed and the explanation of its use, and the provision of individual care and attention. Indifference and lack of reassurance occured predominantly in patients with long standing psycho-social problems. In addition, the patients' current psychological state influenced their attitudes to the unit.