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The Experience of Coronary Artery Disease Patients with Stents at Zagazig University Hospital’s Cardiac Outpatients Clinic

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Maged Hesham Ahmed Nabil, Sahar Mahmoud Sayed Ahmad, Aliaa Mohammed Othman Elafandy
» doi: 10.48047/ecb/2023.12.1.587

Abstract

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a cardiovascular disease which has been found to be the leading cause of death in both developed and developing countries. Aim to assess the experience of coronary artery disease patients with stents at Zagazig university hospital’s cardiac outpatients’ clinic. Design: Descriptive research design was applied in this study. Sample: A convenient sample was used 86 CAD, patients with stents. Setting: cardiac outpatient clinics at Zagazig university hospital, Zagazig city, Sharkia Governorate, Egypt. Tools of data collection: one tool was used for data collection that consisted of 5 parts: 1st: Demographic data. 2nd: Past and current medical history. 3rd , 4ᵗʰ and 5ᵗʰ: coronary artery disease patients’ knowledge, reported practice and attitude level regarding stent. Result: 62.8% of the studied patients had unsatisfactory level of total knowledge regarding stents, 57.0% of the studied patients had inadequate level of total reported practice regarding stents, and 51.2% of the studied patients had positive attitude regarding stents. Conclusion: There was statistically significant relation between patients' knowledge, reported practice and attitude about stents and their demographic characteristics as educational level. While, there were no statistically significant relation with their gender, marital status. The study revealed that, there were highly statistically significant positive correlation between total knowledge, total reported practice and total attitude regarding stents among the studied patients at (P= < 0.01). Recommendations: Disseminating health education program to increase cardiac patients’ awareness regarding CAD and stent

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