Motivation for Adherence to Exercise-based Cardiac Rehabilitation in Patients with Acute Myo-cardial Infarction:A Qualitative Study
Objective To explore motivational factors influencing exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation ad-herence among patients with acute myocardial infarction(AMI)after percutaneous coronary intervention(PCI)and to provide suggestions and evidence for promoting patients'positive behaviors in exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation.Methods A descriptive qualitative study was conducted.Purposive sampling method was used to select 29 patients with AMI for semi-structured in-depth interviews,who were revisited at a tertiary hospital in Shanghai between July 2021 and January 2022.18 patients were from a cardiac rehabili-tation center and 11 from a follow-up clinic.The content analysis method was used for analyzing the inter-view data.Results Three themes and nine sub-themes were extracted,including patient's exercise experience(sense of benefit from exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation,perception of exercise-related risks),psychological state(pessimism,fear and positive mental attitude),and social support(family attachment and support,professional in-struction and support,peer communication and support,physical resources and support).Conclusions Nurses should pay attention to the patient's exercise experience,psychological state,and social support during the post-AMI period,so as to enhance their motivation for adherence to exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation.
acute myocardial infarctionexercise-based cardiac rehabilitationmotivation for adherencequalitative study