Abstract:
The purposes of this predictive correlational research were to examine sexual behaviors and to examine the predictability of predicting factors; sexual satisfaction, perceived sexual self-efficacy, sexual anxiety, sexual depression, severity of disease, perceived sexual barriers, and social support among male patients with myocardial infarction. One hundred and forty-three male adult out-patients with myocardial infarction were recruited from a multistage random sampling in the cardio clinic at Bhumibol Adulyadej Hospital Royal Thai Air Force and Thammasat Commemoration Hospital. The instruments used for data collection were the demographic data, sexual behaviors questionnaire, sexual satisfaction, sexual self-efficacy, sexual anxiety, sexual depression, the severity of disease assessment (SDA), perceived sexual barriers, and social support. All questionnaires except for the SDA were tested for content validities by five panel of experts, and the reliabilities were .92, .82, .91, .87, .85, .82, and .87, respectively. Multiple regression was used to analyze data. The results revealed: 1.The mean score of sexual behaviors among male patients with myocardial infarction was moderate ([X-Bar] = 12.54, SD = 5.67). 2.Perceived sexual self-efficacy, sexual satisfaction and social support were positively related to sexual behaviors among male patients with myocardial infarction (r = .652, .645 and .394 respectively). Sexual depression, sexual anxiety, perceived sexual barriers and severity of disease were negatively related to sexual behaviors among male patients with myocardial infarction (r = -.610, -.557, -.458 and -.368 respectively). 3.Perceived sexual self-efficacy, sexual satisfaction, sexual depression, sexual anxiety, perceived sexual barriers, social support, and severity of disease were good predictors for sexual behaviors. Variables accounted for 57.8% of total variance in sexual behaviors.