The purposes of this study were to compare physical activity in patients with cardiovascular disease(CVD( who participated in the self -management and walking- swing arm program before and after the intervention, to compare physical activity after the intervention and the control group. This program was created base on two concepts including : Self-management (goal setting, information collecting, information processing and evaluation analysis, decision marking, action, and self –reaction(  and walking-swing arm concept. The quasi-experimental study design was adopted in this study. The purposive sampling was used to select the sample size which was totally 50 subjects. The intervention group received self-management and walking-swing arm program and usual care while the control group received only the usual care. Physical activity was evaluated by Thai version of Duke Activity Status Index and two times:  first time when the program started and the second time when the program was complete s)ix weeks late). Descriptive analysis composed of percentages, mean, and standard deviation. Inferential analysis t-test was used to analysis data.

The result of the study revealed that 1) The patients with CVD who participated in the self-management and  walking-swing arm program had a significant difference in mean scores for physical activity) p< .05), 2)  The patients with CVD who participate the self-management and walking-swing arm program in mean scores for physical activity was significantly different more than that of the control group ) p< .05).   

Key word :  Physical activity,  coronary artery  disease , self - management, walking-swing arm