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

Table 5

Comparison of average and criterion deviation of changes in cholesterol level, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, body mass index, and anxiety level in the case and the control group after intervention in 2011.

Variables	Case group		Control group		Statistical test
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Changes of cholesterol level	−36.03	48.59	+10.76	41.38	* 𝑃-value < 0.001,  𝑡=2.408
Changes of systolic blood pressure	−0.8	14.54	+5.8	15.39	* 𝑃 -value = 0.022,  𝑡=2.328
Changes of diastolic blood pressure	0.49	8.45	3.6	11.69	𝑃-value = 0.1191,  𝑡=1.573
Changes of body mass index	−0.89	1.55	−0.27	1.03	* 𝑃-value = 0.012,  𝑡=2.547
Changes of anxiety level	−5.35	5.66	0.8	4.44	* 𝑃-value < 0.001,  𝑡=6.280

∗The obtained 𝑃 is significant.