physical activity and associated factors in indonesian patients with acute myocardial infarction

Background: acute myocardial infarction (ami) patients generally report persistent symptoms such as pain, fatigue, depression, and disorders in fulfilling daily needs. physical activity has a beneficial effect on cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and remodeling of dysfunction after ami.aim: this study was performed aimed to identify physical activity and related factors in ami patients.method: this cross-sectional study was performed on 150 post-treatment ami patients who were discharged from a central hospital in indonesia from february to march 2019. the physical activity data were collected using the international physical activity questionnaire. depression was measured using the phq-9 patient depression questionnaire, and self-efficacy using the cardiac self-efficacy scale. data were analyzed by spss software (version 26.0) and chi-square and fisher’s exact tests. p<0.05 was considered statistically significant.results: after hospitalization, majority of patients were in adult age (<60 years old) category (73.3%), were male (78.8%), had passed 7 to 30 days post-discharge (75.3%), and had comorbidities (64.7%). the majority of patients had mild physical activity (82%), in the mild depression category (69.3%), and had negative self-efficacy (86.7%). factors related to low physical activity were age (p=0.002), gender (p=0.0001), days after hospitalization (p=0.03), comorbidities (p=0.02), depression (p=0.003), and self-efficacy (p=0.0001). the logistic regression test showed that age, gender, and self-efficacy improve physical activity in post-discharge ami patients.implications for practice: age, gender, and self-efficacy can enhance physical activity in post-discharge ami patients. it is suggested that a pre-discharge and follow-up education be performed to evaluate physical activity.