Effects of spesific exercises on patients with myocardial infarction relevant to complications

ABSTRACT

A descriptive study applied on a sample consisted of [30] patients, selected from Ibn Al- Nafees hospital in Baghdad city from the 1st of March through the 30th of May [2000] to know the effect of training exercises on patients with myocardial infarction to prevent respiratory complication and venous thrombosis. This study aimed to know the effect of training exercises on patients with myocardial infarction to prevent respiratory complication and venous thrombosis. A purposive study of [30] patients with myocardial infarction, [15] of them were in the study group and the other [15] patients were in the control group. Tow parts instruments were conducted, it consisted of a personal and demographic data sheet for patients and the other was an instrument constructed to assess the effect of training exercises on patients with myocardial infarction to prevent respiratory complication and venous thrombosis. To establish validity a panel of [5] experts gave suggestions about the instrument, their option and comments were taken into consideration. While the reliability coefficient was "r=0.85" and that was statistically accepted. Frequency, percentage and chi square test were used to analyses the data of the present study. The study results revealed that there is a significant effect of the training exercises in the appearing of venous thrombosis symptoms, about the pain in calf and redness of the leg, besides that there is a significant effect on the symptoms of respiratory complications in the study group. From the results of the present study the investigators recommended that the exercises can be used by professional nurses at cardiac care units for reasonable outcome of nursing care