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Abstract
Background: The most prominent risk factors for myocardial infarction are older age, smoking, high blood pressure, and diabetes mellitus. One of the goals of nursing care is health promotion and prevention of disease. Aim: The aim of this study is to assess risk factors of myocardial infarction among adults. Design: A descriptive analytical design is used. Setting: The study is conducted in cardiovascular hospital-Ain Shams University Hospitals. Subjects: The study subjects included a purposive randomly sample (350) adult patients from the pre-mentioned setting, from the beginning of December 2021 to the end of February 2022. Tools: Two tools were used for data collection Tool 1: A Structured Interviewing Questionnaire that contain four parts; Part I: Socio - demographic data of the studied sample, Part II: Past and present medical history of the studied sample, Part III: Patient’s knowledge about myocardial infarction and Part IV: Patient’s reported practices regarding myocardial infarction, and Tool 2: Risk factors assessment. Results: Near to one; third of the studied sample had satisfactory knowledge about myocardial infarction and around three quarter of the studied sample have inadequate level of total reported practices regarding myocardial infarction. Around two; third of the studied sample have unmodifiable risk factors for myocardial infarction including sex , family history and about one; quarter of them reported early menopause as a risk factors for myocardial infarction, respectively. Conclusion: There is highly significant positive correlation between participants` knowledge and their reported practices regarding myocardial infarction. Also, there is a statistically significant relation between sample’ reported practices regarding myocardial infarction and all their risk factors. Recommendation: Design and implement educational programs for the patients and community population about prevention, treatment and follow up of myocardial infarction.