Rahe R H, O'Neil T, Hagan A, Arthur R J
Int J Psychiatry Med. 1975;6(3):349-58. doi: 10.2190/T9C0-E5L6-0BJ1-5QF1.
Sixty post-myocardial infarction (MI) subjects have been followed for up to eighteen months' time following their MI. Thirty-eight of these subjects completed a brief series of four to six group therapy sessions during their early rehabilitation phase; the others received no group therapy. Both groups were placed on otherwise identical schedules of outpatient follow-up. Group therapy patients have, to date, experienced significantly fewer cardiac complications than controls. Only one death has occurred, and that one patient was in the control group. A coronary heart disease teaching evaluation questionnaire was given to a sample of group therapy patients, a sample of controls, and a comparison group of men without MI. Following their group therapy sessions, these men demonstrated significantly greater knowledge of their disease and its optimal rehabilitation than did control or comparison subjects. Control patients' questionnaire results proved to be insignificantly different from those of the comparison group.
六十名心肌梗死（MI）患者在心肌梗死后接受了长达十八个月的随访。其中三十八名患者在早期康复阶段完成了一系列简短的四至六次团体治疗；其他患者未接受团体治疗。两组患者在门诊随访的其他方面安排相同。迄今为止，接受团体治疗的患者出现心脏并发症的情况明显少于对照组。仅发生了一例死亡，该患者属于对照组。对一组接受团体治疗的患者、一组对照组患者以及一组无心肌梗死的男性比较组进行了冠心病教学评估问卷调查。在参加团体治疗课程后，这些男性对自身疾病及其最佳康复方法的了解明显多于对照组或比较组的受试者。对照组患者的问卷调查结果与比较组无显著差异。
