Effect of Secondary Prevention Program on Stress and Risk Reduction among Coronary Artery Disease Patients at Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, Chennai
One of the leading cause of morbidity as well as mortality in most of the countries today is cardiovascular disease. The most prevalent type of cardiovascular disease is coronary artery disease, which is an emerging health problem. In present study the investigator assessed the effect of secondary prevention program on stress and risk reduction among coronary artery disease at Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of secondary prevention program among patients with coronary artery disease.
True Experimental - pretest post test control group design was used to assess the level of stress, coping and knowledge among patients with Coronary Artery Dis ease. 100 simple random sampling techniques was used to Collect information.
The Results showed that the post test stress score was 40.1% which depicts reduction in stress level. In the post test coping score was 55.8% which depicts improvement in coping level. In the post test knowledge score was 74.8%, which depicts improvement in knowledge level. There was an association found among experimental group stress with s elected demographic variables, the elders , those who get less income and less educated patients had less stress than others. There was also an association found among experimental group coping with s elected demographic variables, the elders, less educated and patients with no bad habits had more coping than others.
There was an association found among experiment al group knowledge with s elected demographic variables, the younger and males are having more knowledge than others.
Secondary Prevent ion Program is a simple and effective method to treat Coronary Artery Disease patients
