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  • Title: Positive shifts in the perceived meaning of cardiac pain following a psychoeducation program for chronic stable angina.
    Author: McGillion M, Watt-Watson J, LeFort S, Stevens B.
    Journal: Can J Nurs Res; 2007 Jun; 39(2):48-65. PubMed ID: 17679585.
    Abstract:
    This study examined the meaning of cardiac pain for chronic stable angina (CSA) patients who participated in a standardized angina psychoeducation program. The patients documented what angina meant to them at sessions 1 and 6 of a 6-week standardized psychoeducation program aimed at enhancing CSA self-management. At session 1, angina was described as a major negative life change characterized by fear, frustration, limitations, and anger. At session 6, angina signified a broad and ongoing pain problem requiring continual self-management in order to maximize quality of life. The findings suggest that the perceived meaning of angina as a burdensome and debilitating life change shifts, during psychoeducation, to one of angina as a broad pain problem requiring ongoing self-management in order to preserve life goals and functioning. How such perceptual shifts in the meaning of cardiac pain might contribute to the overall effectiveness of psychoedcuation warrants further investigation.
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