Lifestyle Management for Patients with Coronary Heart Disease

Nancy Houston Miller is the associate director of the nationally recognized Stanford Cardiac Rehabilitation Program. Having worked in cardiac rehabilitation for more than 20 years, she has a thorough understanding of what it takes to help patients with coronary heart disease change their lifestyles. Her extensive research in cardiovascular risk reduction has involved work on the development of MULTIFIT, the multiple risk factor intervention program described in this monograph. Since 1973 she has worked with patients in the YMCArdiac Therapy Exercise Program, now known as the Cardiac Therapy Foundation of the Mid-Peninsula, in Palo Alto, CA. A member of both the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation and the American Heart Association, Houston Miller received fellowship awards from these organizations in 1990 and 1991, respectively. She earned her bachelor's degree in nursing from the University of Washington in 1972. Craig Barr Taylor is the codirector of the Stanford Cardiac Rehabilitation Program. A board-certified psychiatrist, he has more than two decades of experience in clinical and research interventions with coronary heart disease patients. He has been a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine since 1991. Taylor was a principal investigator on the MULTIFIT research study, a project funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. He, Houston Miller, and others are responsible for developing the American Heart Association's Active Partnership(TM) Program, which has been used with more than one million patients. A member of the American Association of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Taylor was elected president of the latter organization for the 1995 term. He earned his MD in 1970 from the University of Utah College of Medicine.

Assessment Tools and Patient ResourcesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Introduction to Lifestyle ManagementChapter 2. Lifestyle Management: Theories of InterventionChapter 3. Education, Communication, and Methods of InterventionChapter 4. Psychological Issues Affecting Lifestyle ChangeChapter 5. Adherence to Exercise ProgramsChapter 6. Dietary Assessment and InterventionChapter 7. Stress ManagementChapter 8. Smoking CessationChapter 9. Adherence to MedicationsReferencesIndex About the Authors