Key result
An educational intervention significantly improved lifestyle behaviors, including reducing saturated fat and sugar intake, increasing physical activity, and promoting smoking cessation in patients with coronary heart disease.
Why the study?
Does a brief educational intervention improve lifestyle behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risk factors in patients with coronary heart disease?
RCT (n=100)
Randomized
No
Does a brief educational intervention improve lifestyle behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risk factors in patients with coronary heart disease?
A brief, individualized educational intervention significantly improves lifestyle behaviors and modifiable risk factors in patients with coronary heart disease.
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Supports routine brief education in CHD care; confirms efficacy of individualized interventions for lifestyle change.
INTRODUCTION: The idea which the progression of coronary artery disease is regularly reversible was previously radical concept but today it has become the most common. A number of interventions have been reported to arrest or reverse the progression of coronary atherosclerosis, many of which have been detailed in the time those include comprehensive changes in lifestyle. METHODS: A total of 100 patients aged less than 65 years were interrogated, 50 patients in case groups and 50 in control groups. All severely ill patients, and patients aged more than 65 years were excluded. We used educational packages for all of our patients, to teach all of them risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) and how to change their lifestyle to reduce those risk factors. Data were analyzed by SPSS software. RESULTS: Patients in intervention group significantly reduce the intake of saturated fat, sugar, and cholesterol (p<0.001), increased their exercises (p<0.001), and stopped smoking (p<0.05), when compared with the usual case group. CONCLUSION: This study demonstrated that education has a very important role in changing lifestyles of CHD patents and it helped to reduce risk factors of CHD.
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Yavarikia et al. (2011) conducted an RCT in Coronary heart disease (n=100). Educational package for lifestyle modification vs. Usual care (no education package) was evaluated on Lifestyle modification (diet, exercise, smoking) (p=<0.001). An educational intervention significantly improved lifestyle behaviors, including reducing saturated fat and sugar intake, increasing physical activity, and promoting smoking cessation in patients with coronary heart disease.
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