[Correlation of basic conditioning factors for selfcare of patients who underwent coronary bypass]

It was aimed at to correlate selfcare actions developed by patients that undergone coronary bypass with the variables: gender, age, occupation, marital status and family antecedents for cardiovascular diseases. Exploratory-descriptive study, carried out at a cardiology hospital, in Fortaleza-CE, with 52 patients that had undergone coronary bypass in a period less than one year. The patients'has the following profile: majority was men (53.84%), age from 65 years-old or more (59.61%), retired (71.15%), married (63.46%), with family predisposition for cardiovascular diseases (67.30%). Women, elderly patients, married patients and the ones who have family predisposition for cardiovascular alterations had better selfcare practices, mainly when the patient is retired. The conclusion is that patients that participated in this research, keep a satisfactory selfcare level, supporting the importance of the group orientation process, in a continuous way and with different approaches to provide conditions to the patient who have been submitted to the coronary bypass to practice the selfcare.