Table III.

Thematic categories and descriptive units of control group.

Thematic categories	Descriptive units
1. The heart disease and its onset	1.1 Recognition of signs and symptoms 1.2 The emotive experience
2. Hospitalization	2.1 Awareness of the severity of the event 2.2 Personal response to the event
3. Perception of the disease	3.1 Uncertainty about the clinical evolution of the pathology and its duration 3.2 Knowledge of risk factors 3.3 Need to make behavioural changes 3.4 Need to understand own clinical condition 3.5 Disbelief at own illness
4. Relationship with the nursing staff	4.1 Care 4.2 Communication and sense of hospitality
5. Return to everyday life	5.1 Fear and concern for the return to everyday life 5.2 Fear of disability 5.3 Changes to everyday life