Key result
A face-to-face education program and booklet significantly improved systolic blood pressure (P=0.022), smoking cessation (P=0.013), cholesterol (P<0.0001), body mass, and anxiety.
Why the study?
Does face-to-face education and an educational booklet improve heart health indexes in hospitalized patients with first-time myocardial infarction?
RCT (n=112)
Randomly assigned
Does face-to-face education and an educational booklet improve heart health indexes in hospitalized patients with first-time myocardial infarction?
A structured education program utilizing face-to-face instruction and booklets significantly improves cardiovascular risk factors and reduces anxiety in patients recovering from a first myocardial infarction.
May support post-MI education programs; hypothesis-generating and requires randomized confirmation before practice change.
Management of risk factors and heart health indexes in the patients who have been diagnosed with myocardial infarction will result in prevention of secondary myocardial infarction, reduction of postimprovement mortality, increase of life span and improvement of life quality. Patient education has been found to be one of the most fundamental and essential care programs on the basis of identification and control of the patients' health criteria. The study is a quasi-experimental research consisting of two groups. In this study, 112 patients with myocardial infarction who were below the age of 70 were selected randomly and divided into two groups (case group and control group) after being matched based on age and sex. The researcher first measured the health indexes including smoking, cholesterol level, body mass, level of anxiety, and amount of systolic and diastolic blood pressure in patients who have been diagnosed with myocardial infarction for the first time. He performed education program in case group and analyzed the said variables after four months. He also compared the behaviors in the two groups after being educated. The data was analyzed by SPSS software, version 15 (This product is licensed to FeFDBi, ABiComputer, 1337), and the two groups were compared by using appropriate statistical tests. According to the results, after education period, systolic blood pressure of the case group improves compared with control group (P < 0.05/P = 0.022), case group tends to quit smoking more than control group does (P = 0.013), cholesterol level of case group improves compared with control group (P < 0.0001), changes of body mass are more positive in case group compared with control group (P = 0.012), and anxiety of case group reduces compared with control group (P < 0.0001).
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Vardanjani et al. (2013) conducted an RCT in Myocardial infarction (n=112). Face-to-face education and educational booklet vs. Control group was evaluated on Health indexes including systolic blood pressure, smoking, cholesterol level, body mass, and anxiety. A face-to-face education program and booklet significantly improved systolic blood pressure (P=0.022), smoking cessation (P=0.013), cholesterol (P<0.0001), body mass, and anxiety.
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