**5.4 Suggestions**

*Inflammatory Heart Diseases*

diseases like coronary heart disease.

**5.2 Limitations**

*\*\*P < 0.01.*

**Table 5.**

tals and clinics.

**5.3 Implications**

techniques to adults. Therefore, its primary prevention is an important factor. Several studies have shown that primary prevention of coronary heart disease by family life education in the community has better benefits compared to secondary prevention for cardiovascular mortality as well as morbidity. Prevention programmers should have a multi-level focus, including individual, family and other social institutions. It is also important to identify subgroups for intervention, so that necessary steps at earlier level itself can be taken for the prevention of lifestyle

*Means, SDs, and 't' ratios on lifestyle for CHD patients and matched non-CHD individuals.*

**Lifestyle CHD patients Non-CHD individuals t ratio**

Sleeping habit 12.02 1.71 5.40 1.35 27.01\*\* Dietary habit 22.44 2.20 9.41 2.16 37.10\*\* Daily exercise 9.42 1.49 5.16 1.20 19.90\*\* Smoking habit 26.88 4.50 13.04 2.14 24.98\*\* Health 12.40 2.19 7.64 1.77 15.15\*\* Job style 65.30 10.53 33.90 5.66 23.61\*\* Social interactions 62.74 7.92 26.35 3.88 37.09\*\* Intimacy 21.75 2.92 12.31 2.17 23.32\*\* Locus of control 43.68 4.94 18.05 4.42 31.43\*\* Values 21.89 4.08 13.14 3.36 14.88\*\*

**Mean SD Mean SD**

CHD is a life time disorder; it is difficult to detect the sufferer as this illness does not reveal any overt causal symptoms. Moreover to get the authentic data, it was highly essential to consult the medical practitioners or cardiologists. Therefore, the researcher had to fully depend upon on the data which was available only in hospi-

1. As mentioned in literature, the incidence of CHD is a global health problem which is given only medical attention, the psychological part of it is almost neglected. Though there are many psychological dimensions to it, only lifestyle has been studied in the present research, the other dimensions also needed to be studied.

Healthy behaviour patterns like sufficient sleep, healthy diet, regular exercise, more social interactions, intimacy, and internal locus of control have beneficial effects among the non-CHD individuals. It is therefore reasonable to promote such

2.The research is based on the data from Pune only.

3.This study was limited to male population only.

a healthy lifestyle to the patients of CHD.

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The following suggestions are made for future research:

