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A Aish

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PubMed1996

A comparison of female and male cardiac patients' response to nursing care promoting nutritional self-care.

Men and women were compared on their responses to Orem-based nursing care designed to support nutritional self-care in myocardial infarction patients, sixty-two men and 42 women were randomly assigned to treatment or control groups, interviewed in hospital, and assessed for eating habits 7 weeks after discharge. Nursing care took place with the treatment group in their homes the week after they were discharged from hospital. Seven weeks later the 3-day diet record analysis showed that although eating habits differed between the sexes, both men and women responded to the nursing care by consuming less total fat and saturated fat compared to controls. There were no significant differences between males and females regarding incidence of obesity or diabetes, their smoking pattern, or on measures of self-care agency or self-efficacy. Men perceived higher levels of social support for healthy eating.

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PubMed1991

Cardiac smokers: beliefs and values about smoking, and attitudes toward the risk of smoking to health.

Many cardiac patients continue to smoke, although this greatly increases their risk of health complications. This study explored cognitive and social factors which may discriminate between cardiac smokers who will be successful in quitting smoking and those who relapse to smoking following hospitalization for a myocardial infarction or coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Patients were interviewed prior to discharge from hospital and when they returned to clinic. Few patients were found to have resumed smoking when they returned to clinic. However, patients who had only recently quit smoking were found to be susceptible to relapse to smoking on the basis of their attitudes towards the risk of smoking to their health and the reduced social pressure from significant others not to smoke. Data suggested that nurses did not take full advantage of opportunities to influence cardiac patients about smoking.

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PubMed1968

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