We recruited a random sample of 66 patients with myocardial infarction
who had been recently discharged from coronary care unit. The study setting
was two university hospitals located in Khorasan, Iran. Patients were randomly
allocated to either the experimental or the control groups. Patients in the experimental
group received education, support, and counselling while patients in the
control group received no intervention. We employed a demographic questionnaire
and the Myocardial Infarction Self-Care Ability Questionnaire for data
collection and SPSS version 16.00 for data analysis.