Relationship between perceived stress and death anxiety with mediating role of self-transcendence among older patients with myocardial infarction

Based on the mediating role of self-transcendence, clinically, healthcare providers should assess for and facilitate self-transcendent practices as a component of routine cardiac rehabilitation. Policymakers and program directors should fund and integrate evidence-based interventions like meaning-centered psychotherapy or mindfulness-based stress reduction, which are known to cultivate self-transcendence, into standard post-MI care pathways to directly target the reduction of death anxiety.