Intervention with heart attack patients and families.
Workers who attend to a stage model of acute illness can create linkage with other problems and events to effectuate a comprehensive and dynamic plan of intervention. A systematized approach is proposed to effectively understand the psychological reactions to illness manifested by heart attack patients and their families.
D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000628:therapy*; D010351:Patient Discharge; D012803:Sick Role; D012947:Social Work