Comparison of the Health Promoting Life Style in Patients Candidate for Coronary Artery Bypass Graft and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Isfahan Shahid Chamran Hospital, 2017

Health-promoting behaviors are a part of a lifestyle that include six dimensions of exercise situations, nutrition, health responsibility, self-actualization, interpersonal relationships, and stress management which affect cardiovascular diseases. In coronary artery disease treatment, bypass graft and percutaneous coronary intervention are preferred as invasive procedures. The objective of this study was to compare the health-promoting lifestyle in two groups of patients under organ transplantation of coronary artery and percutaneous coronary intervention. This is a descriptive-analytical research that was carried out by using the convenience sampling method. The statistical population included all patients candidate for surgery coronary artery bypass graft and percutaneous coronary intervention in Shahid Chamran hospital in Isfahan. In this research, 130 cardiovascular patients in two groups of 65 participants were evaluated by HPLP questionnaire. Data were collected by interview and analyzed by SPSS (version 22), through inferential and descriptive statistics. The results showed that, the average score of the health-promoting behaviors for patients was PCI=143/8± 10/29 and for candidate patients were CABG= 136.15 ± 12.05. There was a significant difference between the average score of the two groups. Also, there were significant differences between score mean of all health-promoting behaviors dimensions, except for nutrition. The results showed that health-promoting behaviors in the two groups were in a moderate level and had significant differences. Because CABG surgery was more complicated than PCI, the patients can be candidate for PCI by the improvement of the health-promoting behaviors. In this context, society educations could be effective especially for cardiovascular patients in the field of health-promoting behaviors, especially in health responsibility, physical activity, and stress management.