Research Article The Effect of Face-to-Face Education and Educational Booklet on Heart Health Indexes of the Hospitalized Patients with

Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Management of risk factors and heart health indexes in the patients who have been diagnosed withmyocardial infarction will result in prevention of secondary myocardial infarction, reduction of postimprovement mortality, increase of life span and improvement of life quality. Patient education has been found to be one of the most fundamental and essential care programs on the basis of identification and control of the patients ’ health criteria. The study is a quasi-experimental research consisting of two groups. In this study, 112 patients with myocardial infarction who were below the age of 70 were selected randomly and divided into two groups (case group and control group) after being matched based on age and sex. The researcher first measured the health indexes including smoking, cholesterol level, bodymass, level of anxiety, and amount of systolic and diastolic blood pressure in patients who have been diagnosed with myocardial infarction for the first time. He performed education program in case group and analyze