Influence of an internal picture of illness, coping-strategies and the self-relation of the patients after myocardial infarction on adherence to long treatment of coronary artery disease and its regularity

Abstract

Patients after myocardial infarction have been interrogated by the questionnaires, allowing to establish prevailing coping-strategy in a difficult reality situation (an illness situation), the internal picture of illness, level of the general internal conflictness, feature of the self-relation, and also model of the doctor-patient relationships from a position of the patient. Telephone contact to patients has been carried out after 12 months from discharging from a hospital and adherence of the therapy recommended in a hospital and its regularity was found out. Adherence to long treatment in patients after myocardial infarction is higher in case of anxieting and sensitive internal picture of illness, the positive self-relation as a whole and constant close cooperation with the attending physician.