Social and spiritual support really do matter when it comes to surviving disease, research suggests.
Heart disease patients who receive psychological support are less likely to die from their disease or return to the hospital, according to a new review of studies presented at the annual meeting of the Acute Cardiovascular Care Association of the European Society of Cardiology.
“The nurses on our coronary care unit observed that patients were less likely to have another heart attack, die, or return to [the] hospital when we talked to them about their treatment, played music for them or helped religious patients to say prayers,” study researcher Zoi Aggelopoulou, a nurse from Athens, Greece, said in a statement. “It made us think that coronary heart disease is not just physical but also has a psychological component.”
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