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Published online before print November 1, 2006, 10.1097/01.psy.0000242121.02571.10
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Changes in Patient Drawings of the Heart Identify Slow Recovery After Myocardial Infarction

Elizabeth Broadbent, PhD, Christopher J. Ellis, MBChB, Greg Gamble, MSc and Keith J. Petrie, PhD

From the Departments of Psychological Medicine (E.B., K.J.P.) and Medicine (G.G.), Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland, New Zealand; and Auckland City Hospital (C.J.E.), Auckland, New Zealand.


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  		Figure 1. (A) An example of a patient’s drawings decreasing in height from discharge to 3 months and 6 months. (B) An example of another patient’s drawings increasing in height among discharge, 3 months, and 6 months.

 

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  		Figure 2. The relationship between change in height of drawing between discharge and 3 months and time to return to work.

 




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