Table 3. Comparison of Coping Strategies on the Basis of Stress Level in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction and Individuals Without a History of Fixed Myocardial Infarction.
| Group | Stress level |
Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low | Moderate | High | Very high | ||
| MI, no. (%) | |||||
| Problem focused | 13 (17.6%) | 5 (6.8%) | 22 (29.7%) | 34 (45.9%) | 74 (100.0%) |
| Emotion focused | 22 (18.6%) | 4 (3.4%) | 21 (17.8%) | 71 (60.2%) | 118 (100.0%) |
| Avoidance behavior | 2 (7.1%) | 6 (21.4%) | 5 (17.9%) | 15 (53.6%) | 28 (100.0%) |
| Total | 37 (16.8%) | 15 (6.8%) | 48 (21.8%) | 120 (54.5%) | 220 (100.0%) |
| Control, no. (%) | |||||
| Problem focused | 18 (12.9%) | 11 (7.9%) | 75 (53.6%) | 36 (25.7%) | 140 (100.0%) |
| Emotion focused | 2 (15.4%) | 4 (30.8%) | 5 (38.5%) | 2 (15.4%) | 13 (100.0%) |
| Avoidance behavior | 13 (19.4%) | 3 (4.5%) | 26 (38.8%) | 25 (37.3%) | 67 (100.0%) |
| Total | 33 (15.0%) | 18 (8.2%) | 106 (48.2%) | 63 (28.6%) | 220 (100.0%) |