This Inpatient cardiac counseling and rehabilitation program resulted in significant and enduring benefits of clinical value. It is likely that it would be acceptable to most post-MI patients, many of whom are not offered or are unable to accept outpatient cardiac rehabilitation.

Patients do provide causal attributions following an MI. While many are similar to causal factors identified by medicine, patients appear to place more emphasis on 'stress'. As predicted by attribution theory, attributions changed over time. The method of obtaining the attributions does not appear to affect the attributions made but greatly affects their number. While all the methods used have their place, the cued method with a list of possible attributions offers a rich return for effort expended.

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