Introduction: The outpatient hospital-based cardiac rehabilitation program after acute myocardial infarction is content-structured and cardiologically controlled program that is based on regular physical exercise and has been proven to reduce mortality of cardiovascular disease. The patient`s opinion plays an important role in assessing the quality of outpatient hospital-based cardiac rehabilitation program. Measuring patient satisfaction can help us to improve the outpatient hospital-based cardiac rehabilitation program. Purpose: The purpose is to determine the form, course and development of cardiac rehabilitation programs in Slovenia and find out the satisfaction of acute myocardial infarction patients with outpatient hospital-based cardiac rehabilitation program in General Hospital Murska Sobota. Methods: A non-experimental cross-sectional study research methodology was used. For the theoretical part, we analysed Slovenian and foreign professional literature. For empirical part, we used the non-experimental quantitative method. With survey questionnaire, we collected the opinions of patients and statistically analysed the data with descriptive statistics, Microsoft® Excel and SPSS. The questionnaire was answered by 140 respondents, 77,9 % of men and 22,1 % of women. Average age of respondents was 63. Results: The results of the study showed that 80,7 % of patients were generally very satisfied with the outpatient hospital-based cardiac rehabilitation program. We found that 83,6 % of patients were very satisfied with the exercise part of program and 76,4 % of patients were very satisfied with lifestyle counsellig. Among the various aspects and benefits of the outpatient hospital-based cardiac rehabilitation program, patients were most satisfied with the attitude of nurses and physiotherapists (4.95 ± 0.219 and 4.95 ± 0.219) and the attitude of physicians (4.79 ± 0.424). Discussion and conclusion: Our research is the first survey in the field of measuring patient satisfaction with the outpatient hospital-based cardiac rehabilitation program, which has been taking place in Slovenia since 2017 and at General Hospital Murska Sobota since 2018. Our research showed that the average values of all statements relating to satisfaction with the outpatient hospital-based cardiac rehabilitation program are very high. The identified views of patients represent the starting points for organizational and content updates to the outpatient hospital-based cardiac rehabilitation program, which will become even more tailored to the perceived needs of patients.
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