Background: Patients who undergone Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) often
experience a variety of discomfort symptoms after hospital discharge including ;shortness of breath,
chest pain or angina pain, incisional pain, atrial fibrillation fatigue, leg swelling, sleep disturbance,
loss of appetite, anxiety and depression. Therefore, patient compliance with symptom management
strategies (SMS) is a crucial to minimize and manage the experienced discomforts . Aim: to assess
the relation between compliance of patients post CABG towards SMS & experienced discomforts.
Design: descriptive correlational design. Setting: This study was conducted in outpatient clinics at
Cardio Thoracic Academy affiliated to Ain Shams University Hospital. Study subject: A
purposive sample of (150) patients post CABG were recruited from the previous mentioned setting.
Data collection tools: This study utilized; patients demographic and medical data tool, patients'
Cardiac Symptoms Survey (CSS) and patients' compliance scale. Results: low percentage of the
studied patient (12.7%) were compliant and (87.3%) were non-compliant .Regarding experienced
discomfort symptoms (60%) had severe level (26.7%) had moderate level and (13.3%) had mild
level, Conclusion: There was highly statistically negative correlation between compliance level of
patients post CABG towards SMS and experienced discomforts level. Recommendation: The
importance of implementing educational program to patients post CABG regarding SMS to enhance
their compliance