RESUMO
Introduction: Coronary Artery Disease as a common health problem in the world that being affected to myocardial infarction is larger than health population. Increased knowledge and attitudes in this patients has significant role in reduse prehospital delay and nursing education has a significant role to reach in goal. This study assess the effect of nursing education on knowledge, attitude and beliefs in coronary artery disease to response to symptoms of myocardial infarction
Methods: This study is a Randomized Clinical trial. Research samples are 170 patients with one of the coronary artery disease that selected by convenience sampling and allocated to equal group [experiment and control] with block randomization. Results from study analized with descriptive statistics and chi-square, dependent and paired t test
Results: Results from study show that increased mean score of knowledge, attitude and beliefs in experimental group after nursing intervention. Also there is significant differences between knowledge, attitude and belief score before and after intervention [P=0.00]
Conclusion: Nursing education programs have a significant role to improve knowledge, attitude and beliefs in cardiac patients. Thus attention to nursing education is nessessery to reduce prehospital delay