Effectiveness of an Instructional Program Concerning Healthy Lifestyle on Patients Performing Cardiac Catheterization in Kirkuk City

Abstract

Cardiovascular catheterization is a frequent procedure. Each year, more than a million cardiac catheterization operations are carried out. Cardiovascular disease is well known to be highly correlated with lifestyle and can be avoided by making healthy lifestyle changes. Major risk factors for cardiovascular disease include smoking, sedentary lifestyles, unhealthy diets, stress, and other bad lifestyle decisions that can be changed. The goal of the study is to determine whether a healthy living education program for patients undergoing cardiac catheterization in Kirkuk City is successful. To this end, we used a pre-post test program for the participant group in our research. According to the study's findings, the majorities of the patients evaluated were overweight or obese and had a history of smoking, either now or in the past. It can therefore be said with certainty that the applied instructional program was successful in considerably improving the level of attitudes for the group participants. The onset of heart disease in the study group appears to have been significantly influenced by these two factors. The distribution of other demographic traits, such as gender, age, marital status, educational attainment, and employment, was shown to be non-random, indicating that these elements may also be important in influencing the prevalence of heart disease.