Influence of Health Empowerment, Spousal Support, and Post-traumatic Growth on Health Behavior in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease

ABSTRACT

Purpose@#The purpose of this study was to identify influence of health behavior in patients with coronary artery disease. @*Methods@#A cross-sectional descriptive design included 150 patients treated with percutaneous coronary intervention in S hospital in S city. Data were collected by using self-questionnaires July 5-August 26, 2021 and were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffé test, Pearson’s correlation coefficients, and multiple regression with SPSS 23.0. @*Results@#Factors significantly influencing health behavior in patients with coronary artery disease were health empowerment (β = .48, p < .001), and post-traumatic growth (β = .20, p = .013). The explanatory power of related variables was 39%. @*Conclusion@#Based on the this study, it was found that health empowerment and post-traumatic growth had a significant effect on the health behavior of patients with coronary artery disease. Thus, it is necessary to promote the health behavior of patients with coronary artery disease through the development of intervention programs to improve health empowerment and post-traumatic growth.