Table 1 The educational content of HBM sessions
Session no | Educational content |
|---|---|
1st | Introduction, providing general information about CVDs, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments |
2nd | Playing videos about hospital readmission, salt and fat consumption, fast food consumption, and patient's physical activity, expressing the statistics of ACS and its readmission rate throughout the world, Iran, and West Azerbaijan to increase the perceived sensitivity to readmission and ACS |
3rd | Providing CVDs and their readmission rate statistics, case studies, and readmission complications e.g. disruption of familial roles, distance from the workplace, and increased provision of health services, and heavy economic costs to increase perceived severity to readmission and ACS |
4th | Conducting group discussion about readmission and ACS to promote perceived benefits, conducting group discussion about the advantages of ACS complying with ACS readmission preventive behaviors to moderate perceived benefits |
5th | Creating brainstorming, thinking about inappropriate behaviors, introducing other wrong alternative methods, and overcoming inappropriate behaviors to improve perceived barriers |
6th | Visual reminding to improve action guides e.g. sending weekly text messages to improve lifestyle and encourage the use of radio and television health broadcasts |
7th | Playing a video on taking small steps to improve perceived self-efficacy, such as controlling your pulse rate and blood pressure and using a pillbox to not forget to take medication |