Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Evaluation & the Health Professions
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Young, R.
Right arrow Articles by Rubenfire, M.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Young, R.
Right arrow Articles by Rubenfire, M.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Preventive Health Behavior Advice

A Study with Older Myocardial Infarction Patients

Rosalie Young

Department of Community Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

Eva Kahana

Department of Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

Melvyn Rubenfire

Department of Medicine, Sinai Hospital of Detroit

Preventive health behavior on the part of heart patients is essential to reduce cardiac risk, improve the opportunity for recovery after myocardial infarction (MI), and enhance the patient's likelihood of survival. Since physicians often manage older patients differently than younger ones, it is important to determine whether preventive health advice differs by age. This study of 246 recovering MIpatients has shown that important areas of differences emerge that appear to favor younger patients. These involve preventive behavior information, advice, and physician referrals. Also indicated by the data was that older patients were offered significantlyfewer opportunitiesfor enrollment in cardiac rehabilitation programs and received significantly less instruction in practices that are beneficial to cardiac health. Discriminant function analyses performed on the data identified specif ic referral patterns in which age of patient was a majorfactor. Reasonsfor the discrepant patterns are offered, including the possibility of age-related stereotyping of older heart patients.

Evaluation & the Health Professions, Vol. 10, No. 4, 394-407 (1987)
DOI: 10.1177/016327878701000403
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Research on AgingHome page
E. Kahana, R. F. Young, K. Kerchir, and R. Kaczynski
Testing a Symmetrical Model of Caregiving Outcomes During Recovery from Heart Attacks
Research on Aging, December 1, 1993; 15(4): 371 - 398.
[Abstract]