Modifications to lifestyle and healthy behavior are essential to better clinical outcomes in patients with cardiac stents to prevent recurrence of cardiac stents. Aim of the study: Was to assess lifestyle pattern for cardiac patients regarding recurrence of cardiac stents. Design: A descriptive research design was used in carrying out this study. Setting: This study was carried out at the Cardiology Outpatient Clinic in Benha University Hospital. Sample: A purposive sample including 100 patients with cardiac stents was used. Tools: Two tools were utilized. Tool I: An interviewing questionnaire composed of three parts, which are demographic characteristics of the cardiac stent patients, medical history of studied patients and knowledge of studied patients regarding cardiac stents. Tool II: Lifestyle questionnaire used to assess cardiac patients’ lifestyle pattern. Results: 32.0% of studied patients aged from 40 < 50 years, 68% were suffering from hypertension, 60% of studied patients performed the cardiac stent three times, 33% of them had good total knowledge level regarding cardiac stents and 36.0% had healthy total lifestyle pattern. Conclusion: A statistically significant relation between studied patients’ total lifestyle pattern and recurrence of cardiac stents
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