Nursing students' attitudes towards coronary artery disease prevention

1Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, Medical Educational Research Centre, Education Development Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran

2Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, Social Determinants of Health Research Center (SDHRC), Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran

3MSN, Amir Almoemenin Educational Medical Center, Rasht, Iran

Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Sciences:Vol. 1, issue 2; 40-45

Published online:Nov 30, 2014

Article type:Research Article

Received:Jun 23, 2014

Accepted:Aug 21, 2014

How to Cite:Roohi Balasi L, Paryad E, Bishiveh Moghaddam S. Nursing students' attitudes towards coronary artery disease prevention.J Nurs Midwifery Sci.2014;1(2):e141410.https://doi.org/10.18869/acadpub.jnms.1.2.40.

Abstract

Background and Purpose: Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is the major cause of limitation in adults' life. But it can be prevented
by controlling its risk factors, modifying life style and educating the population about general health. Besides, health education
is one of the important issues about changing life style. Nurses play an important role in health education. Thus this study was
performed to determine Nursing Students' Attitudes towards the Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease.
Methods: The samples of this cross-sectional study have been 136 of freshman to senior nursing students of Guilan University
in the north of Iran selected by available sampling method. A questionnaire consisting of two sections was used to gather data. In
the first section, the samples socio-demographic data were asked and the second section with 15 questions about nursing students’
attitude to coronary artery disease prevention .Data analysis was done by SPSS16 software using descriptive and inferential
statistics such as Chi square, ANOVA and Pearson tests as appropriate.
Results: The findings displayed that the samples mean age was 21.34±2.52. The majority of them were female (57.4%) and the
freshman students (36%) and without the history of chronic disease (94.9%) and the majority of the students and their family
didn’t have cardiac disease background (77.2%). But the relationship between the score of the attitude and socio- demographic
variables in the students was not significant. The finding showed that the attitude score of 48.5% students was lower than the tool's
mean score but the mean score of attitude increased as the educational years increased.
Conclusion: Our findings showed that about half of the samples did not have the desired attitude towards the prevention of
coronary artery disease; it is necessary to provide educational programs to create deep belief about the prevention of coronary
artery disease, its importance and the students' responsibility about it.

Keywords

Attitude

Nursing students

Primary prevention

Coronary Artery Disease

Fulltext

Full-text is available in PDF format.

Import into EndNote Import into BibTex

Crossmark

Checking

Share on

Comments

Number of Comments:0

Cited by

CrossRef 0

Metrics

Get Permission (article level)

Purchasing Reprints

Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) handles bulk orders for article reprints for Brieflands. To place an order for reprints, please click here ( https://www.copyright.com/landing/reprintsinquiryform/ ). Clicking this link will bring you to a CCC request form where you can provide the details of your order. Once complete, please click the ‘Submit Request’ button and CCC’s Reprints Services team will generate a quote for your review.

Search Relations

Author(s):

Leila Roohi Balasi:[PubMed][Scholar]
Ezzat Paryad:[PubMed][Scholar]
Sara Bishiveh Moghaddam:[PubMed][Scholar]