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Cardiac Self-Efficacy and Fatigue One Year Post-Myocardial Infarction
University West, Department of Health Sciences, Section for nursing - graduate level.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0339-2671
2019 (English)In: Open Journal of Nursing, ISSN 2162-5336, E-ISSN 2162-5344, Vol. 9, no 4, p. 396-407Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Background: Patients and clinicians report that fatigue post-myocardial infraction (MI) is a bothersome symptom during recovery. Aim: The objective of this study was to explore whether there is a relationship between fatigue, cardiac self-efficacy, stress, breathlessness and physical activity one year post-MI. Method: Data were collected from a sample of patients diagnosed with MI one year earlier (n = 125) who responded to a questionnaire package measuring fatigue, cardiac self-efficacy, physical activity and the symptoms breathlessness and stress. Correlation and regression analyses were preformed to evaluate which factors were related to fatigue. Results: The results showed that cardiac self-efficacy was associated with fatigue (r = −0.611, p = 0.01) and the regression model, controlling for breathlessness and stress, showed an explained variance of 72% one year post-MI. Physical activity was not significant in this model and did not predict fatigue during this time period. Conclusion: Post-MI fatigue-relief support should rely not only on identification of fatigue and other concurrent symptoms, but also on identification of cardiac self-efficacy.

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2019. Vol. 9, no 4, p. 396-407
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NURSING AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCE, Nursing science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-14736DOI: 10.4236/ojn.2019.94036OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-14736DiVA, id: diva2:1375870
Available from: 2019-12-06 Created: 2019-12-06 Last updated: 2019-12-06

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