Effectiveness of Educational Intervention on Life Style Management among Coronary Heart Disease Patients Attending a Cardiac Care Centre in Kathmandu

Abstract

Adopting healthy life style reduces Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) progressions which help to enhance quality of life of CHD patients. The aim of this study was to identify the effectiveness of educational intervention on "Living well with CHD".

Methods: A one group pretest-post test design was used. The study was conducted during November to December 2015. Total 100 subjects were selected for pre test, base line information were collected using convenient sampling technique. The educational intervention package of one hour teaching sessions were arranged in separate room in OPD of Sahid Gangalal National Heart Centre (SGNHC) regularly for one week period with one session per day and each participant was provided the booklet prepared in Nepali language during the education sessions. After one month of education intervention program, post test was conducted with 90 subjects using same interview questionnaire and feedback questionnaire.

Results: The result shows that the knowledge regarding life style management was significantly higher among post test group than pre test group at 0.0001 levels. The percentage of respondents with inadequate level of knowledge decreased sharply from 57% to 1% where as those with adequate knowledge increased to 99% from 43%, which was found to be statistically significant (p value=0.0001).

Conclusion: Study concludes that the education intervention programme has considerably in increased knowledge regarding life style management among CHD patients. Therefore, it is recommended that this educational intervention programme may be conducted to CHD patients in similar settings with fruitful outcome.