patients’ cardiac self-efficacy after coronary artery angioplasty

Background: the patients undergoing coronary artery angioplasty should be motivated to adhere to lifestyle modifications. one of the factors affecting this issue is cardiac self-efficacy. cardiac self-efficacy motivates individuals to select a lifestyle related to their cardiovascular diseases through creating the desire to adjust with such behaviors. objectives: the current research aimed to determine the cardiac self-efficacy predictors after coronary artery angioplasty. patients and methods: in this cross-sectional study, 193 patients undergoing coronary artery angioplasty in dr. heshmat educational therapeutic center were selected through convenience sampling. the data were collected by a questionnaire consisted of two sections, including socio-demographic factors and cardiac self-efficacy after oral consent of the subjects. then data were analyzed via descriptive (frequency distribution, mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (pearson, anova and independent t-test). to define cardiac self-efficacy predictors, multi-linear regression model was applied. results: based on the obtained results, the mean age of subjects was 58.35 ± 9.97 years, the majority were male (60.6%) and the underlying diseases history (57.5%) and the mean time interval between repeated angioplasty was 17.48 ± 25.2 months. also the mean score of cardiac self-efficacy among these patients was 8.43 ± 4.5. also, based on the results of the statistical tests, there was a significant relationship between age (p < 0.001), gender (p = 0.024), education (p < 0.0001), hypertension history (p = 0.006), living conditions (p = 0.03), job (p = 0.001) and monthly income (p = 0.003) with cardiac self-efficacy. as the multi-linear regression test results suggested, age was the only cardiac self-efficacy predictor. conclusions: the current study results implied low cardiac self-efficacy score in the study units; then it is recommended to consider care plans to improve the cardiac self-efficacy.