Cutting back after a heart attack: an overview

Health Education Monographs
P D Mullen

Abstract

Increasingly, health workers are concerned with the alteration of complex and deeply embedded behaviors; essential to these tasks is an understanding of the other's situation as he or she views it. This study took the perspective of the patient, inductively generating a conceptual formulation to explain and understand life after a heart attack. The basic problem of minimizing losses under conditions of uncertainty and unknown parameters of action is confronted. Resolution is achieved through "cutting back," which has three major stages: (1) immobilization, characterized by explaining and estimating the damage; (2) resumption, in which patients figure the complex calculus of the new situation to determine what they must cut back, what they should cut back, and what they will and will not cut back; and (3) new normal, when the major work is that of adjusting to the permanent changes wrought by the heart attack experience which affect identity. Exploratory diagnosis of complex health education problems through a "grounded theory" approach is demonstrated by the study.

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