BackWhat Patients say
The Heart Manual books include a 2-page questionnaire which provides an opportunity for patients to make comments and give feedback.
An analysis of 424 responses from returned Post MI programme feedback sheets showed an overwhelmingly positive response. Some of the key results are reproduced in the chart below.
A selection of the comments is listed below.
‘It is important that your family also read the Manual to let them understand what is happening and blow away some of the myths about heart attacks.’
‘I learned a lot of things about my heart that I did not know.’
‘Filling in the Manual is very helpful to the patient. Better than just reading a book, etc. Makes you take more of the advice into your mind, and lots of the items mentioned really apply. This makes you feel much easier in your mind and makes you think you are doing something to help yourself.’
‘I found the book very helpful in that it described the feelings and anxieties that I would experience.’
‘Everyone should read the Heart Manual, starting at school. There is so much about living a healthy life in it.’
‘I found the Manual interesting and educational, and now that I have completed the six weeks programme will continue to use it as a refresher course.’
