Severity of Disease, Risk Factors and Health-Related Behavior Among Women With Coronary Artery Disease

• Main Authors: Lee-Ling Hsu, 許莉玲
• Other Authors: Jen-Chen Tsai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/02312652117588008993

碩士 === 臺北醫學大學 === 護理學系 === 91 === More than three thoudsand women died of coronary artery disease each year. Studies indicated that the risk factor is related to the severity of this disease, and patients are always worried about the uncomfortable symptoms. Women with coronary artery disease should perform some health-related behaviors to reduce the progression of disease, to decrease the treatment fee, and to stop the recurrence. The purpose of this study was to explore the severity of disease, risk factors and health-related behavior among women with coronary artery disease. A correlative study was designed. Subjects who met the critera were referred by a cather room in a medical center in Hualien. Totality of 55 patients enrolled our study. Data were collected by using the structural questionnaires, including the patient’s risk factors, severity of disease, symptoms, and health-related behavior. Percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, one way ANOVA, pearson correlation were used for data analysis. Research results were shown as follows: (1) Subjects all got at least one risk factor , with menopause as the most common one, subsequently were stress, hypertension and high BMI. (2) Mean-score of subjects severity was 38.98±31.78, and higher in those of LAD obstruction and lower in LCA. (3) Fair drug compliance is deemed as the best health-related behavior, subsequently the diet habit, and then exercise habit is the worse health-related behavior. (4) Subscales of health-related behavior reveals highest scores in the items of alcohol restriction and lowest in calories limiting. (5) Symptom of severity showed highest scores in the item of fatigue, but no prominent difference in the items of chest pain and short of breath. (6) Relations between risk factor and disease severity indicates that positive family history and diabetes mellitus are closely related. (7) Exercise activity, BMI and stress will affects health-related behavior to some extent. (8) Health-related exercise are negatively related to symptom severity, among which short of breath and fatigue are especially prominent. In summary, from those data we can make a conclusion that women with coronary artery disease should intensify the performance more effectively on health-related behavior, than ameliorate the development of coronary artery disease, to decrease the symptom severity, and to prevent the impending damage from the formerly existent risk factors.