Effects of a Narrative-Based Psychoeducational Intervention to Prepare Patients for Responding to Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Despite decades of educational efforts, patients' prolonged delays in seeking care for symptoms of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) remain the greatest obstacle to successful management of the condition.

Objective

To compare the effects of a narrative-based psychoeducational intervention with a didactic educative approach on AMI survivors' intention to seek care for AMI symptoms and on AMI knowledge.

Design, setting, and participants

A multisite randomized clinical trial recruited community-dwelling patients aged 18 years or older with a history of AMI from 4 hospitals in Hong Kong from January 1, 2018, to January 22, 2021, and followed up participants for 1 year.

Interventions

An 8-week narrative-based psychoeducational intervention aimed to create

SUBMITTER: Li PWC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9617174 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature