Managing Your Angina During the Holiday Season: Tips to Help Avoid Angina Attacks and Maintain Your Health

Click here to download a tip sheet for your patients on how to manage their angina during the holiday season. (Adobe PDF File)

Get Tough on Angina: an Educational Handbook for Patients and Families

The most comprehensive educational resource currently available to patients with angina. Provided free of charge to patients, their significant others, and healthcare professionals.

Get Tough on Angina: Educational Resource Tool Kit

A comprehensive "how to" kit containing a patient handbook, educational handouts, homework assignments, CD-ROM PowerPoint slide presentation, a comprehensive training syllabus, script, and instructions on how to implement the program. Provided free of charge to patients, their significant others, and healthcare professionals.

Patient Education Series - Support Groups

This four-part education series has shown to positively affect patients' quality of life and is an interactive way to educate and provide support to patients and their families.

Community Seminars on Angina

These seminars were designed to be conducted by hospitals, clinics, cardiac rehabilitation groups, etc., in local communities across the nation. Patients are invited to bring their significant others to learn more about angina.

Click here to see the schedule for up coming web cast/teleconferences.

Click here to see the schedule for presentations of the Get Tough on Angina program at national and local conferences.

To order either the patient handbook or the educational resource tool kit, please call toll free 1(866) 488-1212 or visit www.lifeheart.com.

International Orders: Please email your name, mailing address and quantity to [email protected]

In 2002, 10 PCNA members from across the United States hosted community seminars for over 300 patients living with angina. Also, 56 patients with angina participated in pilot education and support groups. This program tested how an educational support group could improve the quality of life for patients living with angina. The initial phase was scientifically evaluated and completed in early 2003.

We are pleased to report that these patient education support groups did, in fact, improve quality of life (QoL) for patients living with chronic stable angina, despite no change in angina frequency, stability, or physical limitations. QoL was measured using the Seattle Angina Questionnaire (SAQ) at baseline, program conclusion (four weeks later), and again eight weeks following the conclusion of the program.

Based on feedback from the nurse coordinators and participants, the program was revised, improved, and made available, FREE of charge, to health professionals caring for patients with angina.

In Fall of 2003, PCNA proudly offered three classroom training sessions in Akron, OH, Chicago, IL, and Miami, FL and conducted five webcast/teleconference training sessions to raise awareness and encourage healthcare professionals nationwide to Get Tough on Angina.

Click here to read the press release from the launch of the Get Tough on Angina program.