Effect of cardiac patients’ perceived benefits from and perceived self-efficacy and performance accuracy in the use of an incentive spirometer on spirometric values after coronary artery bypass graft surgery

Research Abstract

Cardiac patients’ spirometric values after CABG surgery were significantly positively related to each of the following: patients’ perceived benefits from the incentive spirometer, patient’s perceived self-efficacy, and their performance accuracy in the use of the incentive spirometer.

Research Keywords

accuracy of incentive spirometer performance, coronary artery bypass graft surgery, incentive spirometer, perceived benefits of incentive spirometer, perceived self-efficacy, spirometer