Self-efficacy after myocardial infarction

• Main Authors: Mauricio Medina-Garzón, Yurian Lida Rubiano
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2017-04-01
• Series: Revista de la Facultad de Medicina
• Subjects: Infarto agudo de miocardio; Autoeficacia; Enfermería en rehabilitación.
• Online Access: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/revfacmed/article/view/57893

Introduction: After an acute myocardial infarction, patients experience high levels of emotional stress and anxiety, which limit healthy behaviors. Objective: To determine the general level of self-efficacy in post-acute myocardial infarction patients according to age, sex, rehabilitation status and care in a cardiology unit of Girardot. Materials and methods: Descriptive study in which the general scale of self-efficacy version II was used in a population of 149 people aged between 35 and 65 years. Descriptive statistical measures and correlation tests were used to perform the statistical analysis of  the results. Results: The average age of the participants was 52. The analysis by age group showed a minimal incidence. A sex analysis showed that men perceive themselves as more self-efficacious than women. In addition, patients who did not attend cardiac rehabilitation had a slightly higher overall self-efficacy rate compared to rehabilitated patients. Conclusions: There was no correlation between age, sex, and rehabilitation versus the self-efficacy level. In fact, these variables depended on others not considered in this study.