title: [Groups with volunteers cardiac surgery patients: experience in a cardiovascular rehabilitation department].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This article aimed to describe a new experience activated inside of a more general psychological approach for patients who underwent cardiac surgery intervention.
  
  
  METHODS
  The first 100 patients taking part to the groups were subjected to a questionnaire in order to evaluate the satisfaction degree of the meeting.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The questionnaire results, showed on the whole a good rating of the meeting. In addition to quantitative results, we express and discuss in this paper some considerations concerning the obtained results.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Preliminary data analysis show that volunteers previously submitted to cardiac surgery seem to offer an important contribution to the psychological support of patients recently undergone cardiac surgery.
authors.affiliation: ñCentro Santa Maria ai Servi, Fondazione Don Gnocchi, Parma, Italy. bbasagni@dongnocchi.it
authors.forename: Benedetta
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Basagni
authors.forename: Luana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pancani
authors.forename: Valerio
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Brambilla
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Coruzzi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000072038:Cardiac Rehabilitation; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires