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.

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