Methods	Randomised 3rd day post MI.
Participants	294 men & 8 women F <70 yrs (mean age 57+/− 8), post MI, in 5 centres
Interventions	Nurse managed, home based, multifactorial risk factor intervention programme with exercise training based on De Busk/Miller. F/U 12 months
Outcomes	Total mortality
Notes	Levels of psychological distress dropped significantly for both groups by 12 months
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors’ judgement	Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias)	Unclear risk	“randomly allocated”
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Unclear risk	Not reported.
Blinding (performance bias and detection bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	Unclear in terms of assessment of outcomes.
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes	High risk	33% lost to follow up, no description of withdrawals & dropouts
Selective reporting (reporting bias)	Unclear risk	No information reported.