The perceptions of the causes of cardiac diseases: a taxonomy

This study verifies whether the open-ended question of the B-IPQ can collect causal attributions of patients with cardiac diseases, define the more frequent causal attributions reported, classify them and describe the relation between the classification of the causes and patients' characteristics.A group of 2011 patients with cardiac diseases was recruited during the first week of cardiac rehabilitation.Every participant filled in the B-IPQ and...