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Aims: Nowadays, noncontiguous diseases have been extended due to the renovation of societies, technology promotion and density of population on urban zones, life and style changes and tendency of population to unsuitable habits. Cardiovascular diseases are from these failures and are the most widespread death cause in the most nations of universe and also Iran and the most important cause of unhealthy. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of family-centered empowerment model on the life style of the myocardial infarction patients.

Methods: This clinical trial study accomplished from August to December 2007 on all of myocardial infarction patients hospitalized in Shari’ati Hospital coronary care unit. After sampling by randomized clustering, subjects (70 patients) were randomly assigned to experimental and control group. For experimental group, family-centered empowerment model was implemented with four dimensions of perceived threat (severity and sensitivity), self-efficacy, educational partnership and evaluation; and usual care was done for control group members. The research tools were demographic, lifestyle and four empowerment dimensional questionnaires.

Results: There were no significant difference between two groups in demographic data (p> 0.05). In lifestyle dimension, tests revealed no significant difference between two groups before the intervention (p> 0.05); but after the intervention, all modes differences were deeply significant (p< 0.001) except physical healthy (p> 0.05).

Conclusion: Performing family-centered empowerment model for patients with myocardial infarction is practically feasible and …