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

Table 4

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

Case group/variables	Before intervention		After intervention		Statistical test
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Cholesterol level	220.10	55.55	184.06	31.20	𝑡=5.839,  *𝑃-value < 0.001
Systolic blood pressure	126.77	18.42	125.97	12.73	𝑡=0.436,  𝑃-value = 0.664
Diastolic blood pressure	74.59	9.23	75.08	9.24	𝑡=0.455,  𝑃-value = 0.651
Body mass index	26.73	3.46	25.84	2.48	𝑡=4.544, *𝑃-value < 0.001
Anxiety level	17.31	11.03	11.95	7.6	𝑡=7.446,  *𝑃-value < 0.001

∗The obtained 𝑃 is significant.