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

Table 3

Comparison of average and criterion deviation of anxiety level, body mass index, cholesterol level, and blood pressure in the patients with infarction before and after intervention in the control group 2011.

Control group/variables	Before intervention		After intervention		Statistical test
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Cholesterol level	209.76	55.25	220.52	43.27	𝑡=1.839,    𝑃-value = 0.072
Systolic blood pressure	125	19.92	130.8	19.67	𝑡=−2.66,   *𝑃-value= 0.010
Diastolic blood pressure	74.8	12.37	78.4	12.01	𝑡=−2.177,   𝑃-value= 0.034
Body mass index	26.19	3.65	25.91	3.54	𝑡=1.866,   𝑃-value = 0.068
Anxiety level	15.26	10.07	16.06	8.95	𝑡=1.273,   𝑃-value = 0.209

∗The obtained 𝑃 is significant.