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Introduction: Today, one of the purpose of therapeutic-care programs is promotion of quality of life.Researches show that there is a close relationship between education and quality of life. For reaching to education,the first step is determining of educational needs. Patient education is one of the nursing cares, patients need to have information for accepting diet, drugs, activity, nature of illness to be able to participate in self care. considering of increasing of heart disease and need to do education programs based on educational  needs in order to promote quality of life , this research was performed with the aim of determining the educational needs and quality of life of the patients with chronic myocardial infarction referring to Ramsar Imam sajad hospital.  Methods and materials: This study is a cross-sectional research that has done on 120 patients with chronic myocardial infarction in Ramsar Imam sajad hospital. Data collection tool is questionnaire, that consists of three sections: 1- demographic characteristic, 2-questions about educational needs and 3-questions about quality of life, that fill by interviewing. Descriptive and analytical (X2 and T-test) were used for the analysis of the collected data.Results: Results of this research show that sampels in all of the aspects of illness, diet ,activity had high needs for education and there were changes in different aspects of life such as working at home , social life , interests and  hobbies, vacation, and by X2 – test. There is significant difference between sex and educational need (nature of illness and activity). T-test shows a significant different between sex and educational needs (nature of illness, drugs and activity), (by regularity p

Keywords: Education needs, chronic myocardial infarction, quality of life

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