Self-Care Behaviors among Patients after Cardiac Surgery in Saudi Arabia: Application of Orem’s Theory of Self-Care

Table 1

Basic conditioning factors of the participants ().

Variables	Frequency (%)
Gender
Male	88 (58.7)
Female	62 (41.3)
Marital status
Married	90 (60)
Unmarried	60 (40)
Education level
School education	77 (51.3)
Diploma education	43 (28.7)
University education	30 (20.0)
Type of surgery
CABG	78 (52.0)
VR	53 (35.3)
CABG and VR	19 (12.7)
Comorbidities
Myocardial infarction (MI)	81 (54.0)
Hypertension (HTN)	54 (36.0)
Diabetes mellitus (DM)	47 (31.3)
Heart failure (HF)	34 (22.7)