Effect of health promoting lifestyle training on vitality, psychological well-being and blood pressure of women with cardiovascular disease

This study aimed to determine the effect of health promoting lifestyle training on vitality, psychological well-being and blood pressure of women with cardiovascular disease.

Women with cardiovascular disease have many problems in physical and mental health and one of the effective methods in this field is health promoting lifestyle training method.

This was a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest and follow-up design with control group. The study population consisted of women with cardiovascular disease referred to Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center in Tehran, Iran, in 2019. The sample consisted of 40 women who were selected by purposeful sampling method and randomly allocated into experimental and control group. The experimental group received eight 75-minute educational session (one session per week) on health promoting lifestyle and the control group placed on the waiting list for training. Data were collected using questionnaires vitality and psychological well-being and sphygmomanometer and were analyzed by Chi-square test, independent t-test, repeated measures and Bonferroni post-hoc test in SPSS Version 19.
Findings. In the pretest stage, there was no statically significant difference between the experimental and control group in terms of vitality, psychological well-being and blood pressure, but in the posttest and follow-up stages, there was found a statically significant difference in terms of all three variables of vitality, psychological well-being and blood pressure, meaning that health promoting lifestyle training method led to increase vitality and psychological well-being and decrease blood pressure of women with cardiovascular disease. This effect continued in follow-up stage.

The method of health promoting lifestyle training led to improve the vitality, psychological well-being and blood pressure of women with cardiovascular disease. It is recommended that health care providers use health promoting lifestyle training method along with other educational and therapeutic modalities to improve the health-related components.