[Psychological aspects observed during function rehabilitation of coronary patients]

The authors have studied the influence of rehabilitation on the anxiety of 93 patients with myocardial infarction. The index of anxiety was measured objectively, as were the various primary factors. The change in these various factors has been favourable one in those patients who have had the benefit of complete rehabilitation. There seems to be a correlations between this change and the quality of rehabiltation as judged by the results of the exercise test which is undertaken at the end of it. Other psychological factors were also studied: the patient's estimate of his anxiety, of the rehabilitation, and of his own relationship to his illness, the factors which finally released his from the anxiety, and the features taken as a while.