Long-Term Survival Differences Among Low-Anxious High-Anxious and Repressive Copers Enrolled in the Montreal Heart Attack Readjustment Trial

Objective

This study reports 5-year outcomes from the Montreal Heart Attack Readjustment Trial, a randomized, controlled trial of monthly telephone monitoring of psychological distress and home nursing visits in a sample of 1376 patients. It focuses on differences in long-term program impact associated with patients’ sex and baseline anxiety/repressor coping styles. The potential mediating roles of medications, medical care utilization, and changes in negative emotions over the program are also explored.