title: Influence of psychosocial factors and biopsychosocial interventions on outcomes after myocardial infarction.
abstract: Management of the myocardial infarction patient may extend beyond the physiologic to include psychosocial factors that may adversely affect cardiac health. Psychosocial factors such as depression, coronary-prone behavior, hostility, social isolation, anxiety, anger, and stress are related to increased cardiac death and illness. Various interventions including cognitive-behavioral therapies, techniques that elicit the relaxation response, meditation, exercise, and increasing social networks, may play a role in improving health outcomes. This article explores the relationship of these psychosocial factors to cardiac health and proposes a biopsychosocial model of care.
authors: SpecialistWellcare Associates for Integrated Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors: E F
authors: EF
authors: Buselli
authors: E M
authors: EM
authors: Stuart
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001676:Biofeedback, Psychology; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome