How Coronary Patients Respond to Last Rites

1 March 1969

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Postgraduate Medicine

Vol. 45 (3) , 147-152
https://doi.org/10.1080/00325481.1969.11697058

Abstract

The psychologic response to last rites was investigated in a study of 30 patients hospitalized with a tentative diagnosis of myocardial infarction. Only four responded negatively. How the sacrament is administered seems to be the most important accessible variable affecting anxiety. It was most helpful when it was personal and specifically reassuring, stressed the routine nature of the procedure, and made reference to healing and recovery.

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